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

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

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

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.