We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year.

I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.

Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

Perfect retention. I dont think I could do that-Ive never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.

My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits.

Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.