I don't really have that much control over where I play. I put out parameters and I accept what I can. If it's really low, or I had a bad experience at a place then I usually don't play there again.

The best thing is to find something you really love to do and enjoy that process for the rest of your life.

I have great samples of my drums and I try to program them pretty much how I want to play them, try and make it feel natural even though it's programmed.

I'm not going to limit myself in ways to compose or how I should record. You just do what you can with what you've got at the moment.

Japan and Europe seem to have a little more cultural education and so the crowds have been a little more big and enthusiastic, and the places I've played seem a little more classy.

Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic.

I'm happy doing what I do. That's ok. Some guy could appear tomorrow and do it much better than me, and so be it, but right now I'm just happy to be who I am doing what I do.

You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be.

I just want to make music on the drums.

You just chip away until the puzzle is complete.

I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.

When life's problems seem overwhelming look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time.

Ecstasy is the energy of spirit. When life flows, ecstasy is natural.

[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end.

Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.

I can eat fifty eggs.

Forget the adage buy low and sell high.