I was given so much advice. About how my hair should be, what I should wear, which competitions I should enter, what stuff I should play. None of tha… - Joanna MacGregor

I have absolutely no difficulty in coming out and saying Bach and Beethoven are great composers. You must school young people into great classical music, but you must also allow them to hear other music as well. At one point classical music colonised the high ground. Now we're reaping the backlash for that.

I didn't go to school until I was 11. On your own you develop imagination.

In a lot of classical playing there isn't much expressiveness: I don't hear a voice in the playing. What I really admire about jazz musicians is that they develop a sound early on and it's unique to them. Classical players are screened from that by always playing other people's notes.