When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.

My roots are in my record player.

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

So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known.

Improvisation is a compositional method.

Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.