We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.
Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.
You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.
I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.
Hearing myself so much all the time, I don't think I sound that special all the time because it's me.
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.