There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.

A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.