"All those bands (70's groups, Traffic, King Crimson, Jethro Tull) had saxophone and flute players. I don't care about any of the rest of it if it didn't have saxophone or flute. That was my attraction. I think of my first jazz records: Roland Kirk, Sun Ra, the older recordings; Charles Lloyd; the old Chick Correa group, the Brazilian thing that they were doing; and I suppose I'd have to include Herbie Mann in there, plus the famous Kind O' Blue album."
"If I look at my life, it's improvised in a way. All my art is improvised so I try to find a less deliberate way of doing things. I do a certain amount of work. When I play, I want to play. I don't want to play anything contrived."Ibid.