I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.

Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.

I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what he's doing, even though I don't always like to listen to it. It's like living in a house where everything's painted red.

I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.