Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

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.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

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

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.