I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.

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.

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

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

Walk the lines of nature's palm crossed with silver and with gold.

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

Another tea-time, another day older.