As I get older I realise that start has made me rather, well, different. It set down a tremendous template for the rest of my life. I grew up believi… - Joanna MacGregor

Once you start cancelling, there's always something which is not quite right.

The musicians who interest me most are people like Nitin Sawhney, Talvin Singh, Django Bates. They are not just writing music but performing it, recording it, putting tours together and running their own labels. That is what real musicians are, rather than over-publicised specialists.

Being a specialist is a 20th century thing, and now rather old fashioned as an idea. I realised early on that you can be the kind of superstar who jets around playing the same programmes all over the world, or you can be the sort of musician who perhaps can be a little influential.