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.

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

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

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.

My roots are in my record player.

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.

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