Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

I've appeared on some other people's albums.

I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time

Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.

Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.