If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.

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.

Make the drummer sound good.

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

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