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

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

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.

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.

Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.