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

I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.

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

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.

Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.

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.

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

Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.

There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.

It wasn't until I got out of the Army and I heard Coltrane's record 'Coltrane,' when he was doing 'Inch Worm' and 'Out of This World,' that I thought, 'Oh my God, you can do that?' And then I thought, 'OK, I better go back and listen to Eric Dolphy a bit.' And then I said, 'Hmm, I better pull out these Ornette Coleman records.'