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.

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

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

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.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

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.