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.

I've always been fond of acoustic music.

As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

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

Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.