There's So Much Energy Exchange [in Conduction],

There Will Have To Be Times When I'm Not Conducting Because I'm Composing. I Haven't Solved That Problem, And Perhaps I Never Will.

I'm Trying To Conduct Only Five Months A Year, And The Rest Will Be Composing Time. I'm Trying To Spend As Much As I Can Out Of Those Months Here In L.a., Because For Creative Work, This Is A Fantastic Place.

There Is More Openness In La To Possibilities Than On The East Coast Of America. There Is A Pioneering Spirit There That Stems From The Reason People Went Out There In The First Place-to Find Something New.

Conducting Is Intensely Social. You Work With A Hundred People Every Day. You Collaborate, You Try To Focus Their Thoughts, You Try To Give Them A Concept, You Try To Inspire Them, And It's Actually Exhausting.

Our Industry [classic Music] Has Kind Of Retarded Into This Kind Of Endless Cover-producing Thing, And It's A Pity.