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

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

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

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

Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.