You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

I've done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?

Hearing myself so much all the time, I don't think I sound that special all the time because it's me.

I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.