As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Play cannot be defined, because in play all definitions slither, dance, combine, break apart, and recombine.

Whispered words can be devastatingly effective.

To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.

This is the evolutionary value of play- play makes us flexible. By reinterpreting reality and begetting novelty, we keep from becoming rigid. Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways.

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.