Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

My bag is approaching something and taking it to another place. Like words-you take a word and by the time you've finished with it, you milk it and you go through the emotion of what it is, what it means there and then.

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this music that was definitely part of your own vision. That's what the whole thing is like.

If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?

That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.