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I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

I feel that I speak the musical language.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages.

Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.