Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.

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

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

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

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.

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