“I wish I could've been friends with Charlie Parker and played with him...” — Charlie Haden Quote

I wish I could've been friends with Charlie Parker and played with him. That's my period. I feel real close to the '40s - and actually, I was born in '37, so I was a kid singing on the radio in the '40s. But I always dreamed of going to big cities.

I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning.

I had to learn right away how to improvise behind Ornette, which not only meant following him from one key to another and recognizing the different keys, but modulating in a way that the keys flowed in and out of each other, and the new harmonies sounded right.

James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy.

In China's big cities, American products - say, for instance, Proctor and Gamble shampoos or many other goods - are widely coveted by a lot of Chinese consumers.

I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.

In other big cities, I can play a series of sold-out one-nighters at various comedy clubs, but Detroit's the only place in the world I regularly play sold-out back-to-back weeks at different clubs!

Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities.