I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

A big ego isn't necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.