I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.

I'm a humanist.

I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

I'm too old to do things by half.

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.

People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.

Take a walk on the wild side.

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.