It seems the activity of expressing sound to do with music has just started blooming - and because of that, the beginners feel like they're professionals, and the professionals feel like they are beginners, which is very healthy.

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

I would like to play for audiences who are not using my music to stimulate their sex organs.

I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.

Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school.

I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.