I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future.

Improvisation is really not so much remembering things. And this is what I do when I play. I forget things. When I go on the stage, I want my mind to be a blank, so that I can - things can come into me without my knowing where they came from.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

Charlie Parker stuck out in my mind.

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

The thing is this: When I play, what I try to do is to reach my subconscious level. I don't want to overtly think about anything, because you can't think and play at the same time - believe me, I've tried it (laughs).

It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.