The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

Making music is like a form of religion for me, because it soothes your heart and increases the pleasure of your brain. Most of all, it's very enjoyable to express something that you can only hear and not see, which is not bad.

I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing.

Sound has no parents.

After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.