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.

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

Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz.

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

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.

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

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.