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

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

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

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

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.