In the radio show he was quoted as saying that The whole point [of independent music publishing] is not giving people what they want but what they are going to want.

Having served on the BPI (British Phonographic Industry) Council, the governing body of the record industry, from 1987 to 2000, he quit to become the progenitor of the Association of Independent Music in the UK, and similar bodies in Europe (Impala) and the US (A2IM), and the Worldwide Independent Network.