So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open mind about those things.

My roots are in my record player.

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.

I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.