If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.

Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing