Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.

Because I believe that the future of the music lies in the Internet. It can be sold on the Internet.

You would think that anyone on a major label would be doing something, but when you speak of major label that means something to maybe a big pop star that might be getting some sort of benefit from the major. But we still don't get anything.

You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.

They were missing all the enthusiasm, the creativity; that whole excitement about the music was lost. A lot of people are really going back looking for that.

I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.