I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.

I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

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

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