My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

I never really followed grunge.

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.