“My ears used to ring for about two hours after a concert from all the ...” — David Essex Quote

My ears used to ring for about two hours after a concert from all the high-pitched screaming.

My priority in life has always been family. I actually think children teach you to be a man.

I tend to enjoy wherever I am, but in the Seventies I had a hairy time in a town just outside Nashville. Someone from our band had misbehaved and the local sheriff turned up waving a gun, so we had to crawl out of the hotel window to make a dash for it.

I was always a little detached from the 'famous' aspect of it all - fame and fortune was really a peripheral thing, it was never a reason.

What worries me about modern society is how inhibited it is. I'd like to see more eccentrics and more freedom, less surveillance and all of that stuff.

I feel I'm most successful when I'm playing a concert, and it doesn't necessarily seem like I'm playing a saxophone but am coming off more like an orchestra or something like that.

Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.

When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.

I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.