The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so its difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.