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.

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!

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.

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

That is the worst thing about despair: it is not constant, any more than love is.

When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.

There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.

If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God!

Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.

I wasn't the guy who got straight As. I got As and Bs and a couple Cs.

During the past five years, I've learned that time flies faster than you think, and because you only live once you have to learn from your mistakes, live your dreams and be accountable.

The bearers of fables are very welcome.

I actually think we need to put our energies, as entrepreneurs, as technology inventors, as government, to being much more inclusive. I think the key thing is actually working together.