By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.
If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.
When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.
I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.