It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.
“I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?”
“A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.”