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!

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.

Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.

My roots are in my record player.

So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open mind about those things.

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.

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.