I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.

When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys.

It's only the giving that makes you what you are.

The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.