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The single most important thing in learning my craft was being on the stage.

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

I was able to go on stage and work until it felt right or felt good. It meant that I very quickly realised that it was the job for me.

The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

To be honest, I don't know really what I do on stage.

It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.