I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.

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

To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.

I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.

I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

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.