I've appeared on some other people's albums.

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

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.

New York is still where I live most of the time.

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time