The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

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.

If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical - some sort of physiological - effect on the listener, so he doesn't have to hear that sound again.

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

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

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.