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There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.

Next year I’m going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with.

So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before – or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.

My son – and what’s a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

I bet Maurice Gibb’s heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin’ Alive.