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

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.

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

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy

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

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

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone