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

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.

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

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

I don't research anything.

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

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.