Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.