All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed.