For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.

Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.

But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.

I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.

Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.