I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do a book.
Music is a fundamental human right
Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.
My main goal, and it's a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music - as a right - that as they have access to food, health, and education, they get the chance to have art and culture - especially music.
The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.
It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.
I studied music since I was four years old, and from that moment I became part of a family. And that family has taught me things; not only musical things, but things I have to face in life, and that is where the success of the system lies
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
On network, you have limitations for how raunchy it can get and how violent it can get.