Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.

I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.

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