I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.

Improvisation is a compositional method.

My roots are in my record player.

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.

To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.

A dynamic person can easily grow and become a civil human when they start to live independently.

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

Happiness is like rising bubbles -- delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen -- ever present.

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

Nonfiction-wha t the hell, that just says, this is nongrapefruit we're having this morning.

My mum used to say to me, 'you can't have fun all the time,' and I used to say, 'why not?'. Why... can't I have fun all the time?

Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours.

The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.