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.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

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

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

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

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.