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

I don't research anything.

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.

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.

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

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

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.