If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.

I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!

I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.