I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.
An amazing gift in a young child is, in some ways, an abnormality.
I have always been very proud of my Jewish heritage, which has greatly influenced my music, my world view, and my work as an advocate for individuals whom society often leaves behind.
In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!
I'm a great sports fan, you know. I love to watch tennis and basketball and baseball and so on.
When you live in a small country such as Israel, the dream of any musician is to go abroad.
