When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.
I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.
I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.
I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.
When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!
If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.
I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.
I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.
When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.
Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.
