We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.

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 always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.

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.

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

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

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