I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

I find my inspiration in myself.

I played the wrong wrong notes.

Jazz is my adventure.

Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.