...I think the popular view of Science is a solid body of truth, shared by a whole lot of learned men in a room, all agreeing on the answers to the questions of how the Universe works. Whereas nothing could be further from the truth!!! The one truth that I see emerging from the History of Science is that experiment has always surprised theorists. Einstein included!

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal

Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.