It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.

Why do the faithful have such a will, to believe in something? And call in the name they choose, having chosen nothing.

I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.

It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.

Another tea-time, another day older.

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

All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.