I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.

Improvisation is a compositional method.

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

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.

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

The next time a prostitute solicits your business, ask for the clergyman's rate.

I'm dating a girl who's pretty levelheaded. She's a nurse. She's a real, normal girl. Which is what I need because my life isn't normal.

I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a show there that was going to be filming here. Ended up coming out, getting the job and just staying.

If you recognize anyone, it does not mean that you like him.We all, for instance, recognize the honourable Member for Ebbw Vale.

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.