I Feel Very Free And Very Happy

I Discovered That The People Of The North Are Different And There's No Way You Can Make A Person From The North Similar To A Southerner. They're Two Different Worlds.

This Country, And The West Coast, Especially, Is Bad At Preserving Any Cultural Legacy.

We're Not Talking About An Elite Art Form From The Price Point Of View. We Have A Building In L.a. That Is Incredibly Open, Exciting, Inviting, And All That, And There's No Reason For This Music Not To Be Part Of Everybody's Everyday Life.

There Is Something Very Special About This Part Of The World [u.s], Which Is The Openness And The Curiosity And The Lack Of Prejudice And The Lack Of Generally Accepted Norms As To What Art Should Be And How An Artist's Career Should Go And All That.

The Act Of Conducting In Itself, Of Waving My Arms In The Air And Being In Charge, I Didn't Miss. I Missed The Sensual Pleasure Of Being In Contact With Music.