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

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

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.

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.