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.

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

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?

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.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.