I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really instructive because it was no better in particular than any other record I'd done.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.

I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the house screaming, but I haven't been that hip since.