I don't pretend to be as reliable or
experienced as a professional, but it was
gratifying that the other soloists had no idea I was
really only an MP.
It's an interesting twist of fate for a novelist who once wrote, upon hearing the soundtrack to the film adaptation of his book About a Boy, «Seeing one's words converted into Hollywood cash is
gratifying in all sorts of ways, but it
really can not compare to the
experience of hearing them converted into music: for someone who has to write books because he can not write songs, the idea that a book might somehow produce a song is embarrassingly thrilling.»