"Looking at the hundred or so scores I have done you might question the choices, but in a lot of ways this business is…"

"I am a composer. I am not a songwriter. Because the musical world has been so massively hijacked by big business we t…"

"With a comedy, you can easily take away the humor. So it’s very important to keep the pacing of it going, and to keep…"

"I am not a composer, I’m a clerk."

"The Pianoforte Sonatas of Beethoven must always be among the choicest possessions of all who love music and especiall…"

"I wasn't part of that hothouse thing. I didn't go to the Yehudi Menuhin school. I grew up with the idea of trying to …"

"What was most odd was that teachers would tell you what to do and what to think and they would write everything on a …"

"I'm trained quite classically but quite freely by my mum, so even when I was little, I had this rather freewheeling a…"

"I can see it must seem strange, but to me it was normality. Really, my memory of my childhood is that the sun always …"

"Not only was I fiddling around at the keyboard but there were all these other children of all backgrounds wanting to …"