If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.

The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.

But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there and see it, you know, in a real situation.

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.