I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.

I'll know when I find the ultimate sound.

I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.

You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.