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.

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.

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

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

The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!