I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line..

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

Improvisation is a compositional method..

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..

My roots are in my record player..

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….

A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something ….

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier….

So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when P….

So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open mind about those things..

Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Ai….

There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest….

In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano..

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

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

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances..

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

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 ….

So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have th….

Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns.

I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man..