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

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

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

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone - beginners, children, and non-musicians.

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

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.