Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

I've learned from doing both that we tend to get more benefit from a low-key approach. You run the risk with the high-profile approach of stressing parents and students, which can lead to test anxiety and choking.

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.

I'm very, very low-key in general.

I'm just a low-key guy.