I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there.

I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?

I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.

I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.

I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning.

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.

I am just a guy who plays drums.

I mean, we just started, it's a new thing. We're doing this for fun and we're going to see where it goes.

I love the farm, I love growing stuff.

Books measure time in both moments and years. We all grow old but the stories never will.

If i get a second chance to live, i'll rise much higher than i ever dream

Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.

Failure is relative. Life is adventure. Everything has beauty.

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.

I often don't read reviews.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

People are going to talk about you. But maybe you're having more fun than them anyway.

Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

Every choice you make has an end result.