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.

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.

You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.

Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.

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

Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.

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