I'm always looking to disprove what I think I know for sure. I call that learning.

I try not to think about the drums themselves. If I do, I'll end up hitting myself in the head with a drumstick, or sustaining some weird injury.

I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.

I have music in my head; I can't help it. You can put a gun to my head and it's not going to go away. The privilege is that I'm not being prevented from following that.

I'm not unswayed by the opinions of others. I actually really value that, the idea that you can feel things the way somebody else might feel them is a really big part of doing music for me.

What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.

There's part of me that feels a privilege not to do music, but to do what everybody should be allowed to do, which is to do what you're driven to do.

It's weird to me to even say, "I wrote this song." I never feel like I wrote it; I feel like I heard it.

I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.

It's very heartening to see people who I used to do music with still doing it.

That's one of the things that always grabbed me about rock music: There's a song, and you know how it goes, and you can sort of predict it, but a lot is left up to chance and interaction.

Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cow­ardice is [..].

Even if you time travel your past, it can't be changed, likewise you can't possibly change your future, it is always the present which matters.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

Out on a 30 day tour, you got nothing, but groupies and promoters to love you.

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.

What the other teams do is something that I can never control, so I just keep focussed on my direction.

I will send a shower of roses.