My Father Has A Pragmatic Mind. He

I Think You Need To Have People Around You Whose Standard Is High And Who Don't Accept Anything Less.

It's Been A Thrilling Journey - I Have Had To Really Learn That An Orchestra Is An Entity - It's A Creature. I Have Been Calling It The Dragon And The Conductor Is The Dragon Tamer. And You Just Have To ... Ride And Don't Let Go And You Will Be Fine.

Being In Your Forties - Any Woman Who Isn't There Yet, I Just Have To Say To You: Euphoria Is Coming To You.

I Have A Rule That I Don't Read My Press, But Then Somebody In The Crew Will Be Reading It And Of Course It's Right There, So What Do You Think I Do?

If You Can Surrender Your Protection Devices, In Order To Track The Potentially Raw And Perhaps Elusive Emotions That Are The Song's Dna, Then That Is Creative Vulnerability, Which Is Ultimately Hugely Empowering.