I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.

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.

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.