I feel really good in the teacher role.

If you put the right things out there the right things will happen.

Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.

No one writes about the emotional things you go through.

I take my craft very seriously.

My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

If you want things to change, you must change. If you want things to get better, you must get better.

If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.

Others tell like it is, while I tell it how I would like it to be.

Start three bars before something.

Being yourself is one of the greatest things you can possibly do. Being true to yourself.

People who can make you laugh can make you cry.

I think it is only in hindsight that you can determine whether something is a mistake or not.

We are committed to free access and free practice, to the members of the other two religions, to the holy shrines in Jerusalem. To the Muslims, to the Christians.