“I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends...” — Charlie Haden Quote

“I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for instance.”

“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.”

“Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.”

“I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.”

“Seeing the space future through science fiction can be difficult. Much science fiction of the early era, the 1950s through the '70s, took an expansionist view.”

“I'm a storyteller; that is what I do. And I'm particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is how many, how many things you see repeated.”