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.

In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.

God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what’s right.

I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.