What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity

Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it!

Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being discussed at best - at worst, those terms often serve as code words for what is in fact a cultural / political discussion more than a musical one.

I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted

The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.

Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.