The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.

I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.

The externals are important but I'm not interested in superficiality.

I'm not interested in the limelight.