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

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

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.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

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.

But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.