Improvisation is a compositional method.

I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.

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

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've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.

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.