I Wanted To Be Like My Father,

I Started Growing Up In A Hurry And Taking A Lot Of The Philosophy I'd Heard From Church As A Kid A Lot More Seriously - Especially The Ten Commandments - And Wondering How 'thou Shalt Not Kill' Could Be So Absolutely Ignored. It Took Me Until I Was In My 40s To Write What I Was Thinking As A Young Soldier.

When Things Are Going Well, I Hate To Quit.

And There Is A Time Where You Can Be Beyond Yourself. You Can Be Better Than Your Technique. You Can Be Better Than Most Of Your Usual Ideas. And This Is A Whole Other Category That You Can Get Into.

There's A Way Of Playing Safe, There's A Way Of Using Tricks And There's The Way I Like To Play Which Is Dangerously Where You're Going To Take A Chance On Making Mistakes In Order To Create Something You Haven't Created Before.

When You Hear Bach Or Mozart, You Hear Perfection. Remember That Bach, Mozart And Beethoven Were Great Improvisers. I Can Hear That In Their Music.