When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it

When [Billy] Strayhorn came on the scene, he just blew us away.

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

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing

I would think, of all the saxophones, the baritone would be the most logical instrument if anybody was adding a voice to the symphony orchestra.

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear