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

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.

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra

When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.

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

A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio!