It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.

Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.