I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

That's kind of my goal: to build a new row of meaningful tones.

Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.