Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.
If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.
If you think this is weird, just look at yourselves.
In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.
My music is evidence of my souls will to live.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.