The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.

If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather.

It's only the giving that makes you what you are.

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.

Another tea-time, another day older.

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

Why do the faithful have such a will, to believe in something? And call in the name they choose, having chosen nothing.

Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

What I see is a sacred.

Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?So may you blame some fair and crystal river, For that some melancholic distracted manHath drowned himself in’t.

A love that requires constant attention is a doomed love.

Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.

The uphill climb is slow,but the downhill road is fast.

Out of the blue and into the black

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.

I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that.