I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.