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

Question all as to their ways and learn the secrets that they hold

I am not afraid to appear in Israel, although when I come to a place like Israel, I know it's not a picnic by the Thames. I am aware of the tension and it saddens me.

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

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

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.

There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.