I Never Read Comics Growing Up. I

At The Risk Of Sounding Hopelessly Romantic, Love Is The Key Element. I Really Love To Play With Different Musicians Who Come From Different Cultural Backgrounds.

When You Open Box After Box Of Old Comics And They're All "archie," You Have Suffered A Trauma From Which It Is Difficult To Ever Recover.

I Don't Have Any Particular Goals In Making A Recording. In A Way The Recording Is Itself The Goal. The Music Comes Into My Mind, And From There The Main Job Is To Give Form To It.

I Find Indian Music Very Funky. I Mean It's Very Soulful, With Their Own Kind Of Blues. But It's The Only Other School On The Planet That Develops Improvisation To The High Degree That You Find In Jazz Music. So We Have A Lot Of Common Ground.

There Is Really No Spiritual Message That I'm Trying To Convey With My Music, It's Just A Personal Thing. I Really Believe That The More Personal We Get, In A Way, The More Universal The Implications.