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

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

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

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

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.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

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