We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.

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.

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.

In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.

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

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.

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