I like digging around. I'm a real magpie. I used to raid the old music shops in the early '50s in Paris and Brussels. You could pick up some incredible and often valuable music for almost nothing back then.

I am busy all day long. Never bored - I don't know what the word means.

When I started, I'd never had a conducting lesson in my life; I could just do it.

I'm very fortunate. I've led a charmed life, I think.

We will change things if people stand up for what they believe in against injustice and death to save themselves and the future of America - and the world.

My mother's death was the defining moment of my life.

As a kid, all I thought about was death.

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.