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

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.

Another tea-time, another day older.

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

I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for.

In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.