I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.
My roots are in my record player.
There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.
Improvisation is a compositional method.
When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.
I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.