People Look To Me To See What

I Wanted To Prove The Sustaining Power Of Music.

Actually, My Ambition At Eight Or Nine Years Old Was To Be One Of Little Richard's Sax Players, And That's When I Got My First Saxophone, A Selmer. It Was A Strange Bakelite Material - That Creamy Plastic With All The Gold Keys On It. I Had To Get A Job As A Butcher's Delivery Boy To Start Paying For It.

I Really Wanted To Do, More Than Anything Else, Up Until I Was Around 16, 17, Was Write Musicals.

It Would Be Positively Boring If Minds Were In Tune.

I Probably Also Wanted To Be Black At That Particular Time [ 9 Years Old] As Well.