I am reactive.

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.

I don't research anything.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

For me, playing is about playing with other people.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.

Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.

In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

I am reactive.

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.

You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a jazz moment.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

I do like to belong to a man.

I always have a new haircut.

Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.

When I let my hair down, I just let it down. It's more comfortable in my helmet.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

There is no honor in cruelty.

I would be in support of giving the military commanders more latitude in their rules of engagement rather than be restricted to the point we're tying someone's hands behind their back.

It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.

On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.

In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker.

Sometimes I have to pinch myself to think: have I really come this far? Because it is quite different, where I find myself today, from where I started off, in the streets of Waterloo, in the suburbs of Liverpool - that's for sure.

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.

I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.

Anybody who understands how a movie gets made understands that a deep-pockets player is not going to make a movie that has anything defamatory in it without protections.

I went to India, lived, and studied.

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.

An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There's no First Amendment in my country.

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