Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.

I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned to country music, like The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, but particularly through The Byrds because of Gram Parsons, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman (with their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo). They kind of introduced English kids to Merle Haggard and George Jones and the Louvins (brothers Charlie and Ira).

The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.

People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven't even heard.

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.

If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.