I don't think I can play the game and sell myself.

You stick your nose in the dirt until you find something that smells good.

I'm not Stravinsky, I never will be.

I don't know where I'm going, and I don't care where I'm going. As long as I can just do it.

There's things I'd like to do, but I've found that pretty much anything that I try to will to happen doesn't happen, but if you just kind of let go and let things fall into place, somehow I end up being able to do the right thing or the right time.

You have to study composition to understand that things can be done backwards and forwards and upside down, inverted, but it's mainly just an inner valid intuitive thing. Where do you want to go? Ok this is busy, or this needs some space, or this is too much space so now I want to put more notes in there or something. It's all about contrast. High, low. Fast, slow, thick or thin or what have you. And it's the same with improvisation.

You try to improvise in a compositional manner. You don't just do some stupid lick you've been practicing, scale form exercises or something.