The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?
Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.
It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.
As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.
I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.
When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.