I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.

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.

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.

You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.

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.

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