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Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.

I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.

In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

When you think about John Coltrane, in my opinion - and I think I share this opinion with a lot of people - his approach to music changed other people's approach to music.

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forward motion in his work and did not look back.