If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.

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

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.

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

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

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

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