If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?

As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.