Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

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.

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.

I am a romantic, I admit it.

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.