Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

I feel the audience has a right to know if some of the money they're spending is going to a certain cause, and reassuring them the money is going to where it's supposed to be going.

I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

Another tea-time, another day older.

But the tune ends too soon for us all

It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time, but some of the orchestras do end up enjoying it and having a great time.