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

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.

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

In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.

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.

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.

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