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

I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I've had that experience with record companies.

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to know it exists.

Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.