I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.