I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

Working with different people and do things that normally I would not do makes the music interesting for me to continue. It keeps me alive. When I'm doing something alone, that is mine, I know how it is. But when I'm working with someone else, I also see the view from the other, and usually learn something new, try something different. This is very important to my happiness.

The ability to play with different people is infinitely fascinating to me.

You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.

I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing...well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it.

You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first.

I've always been a fan of album covers with no writing on them and have used them a lot in my own groups.