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.

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.

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.

I don't know where I'm going, and I don't care where I'm going. As long as I can just do it.

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

Music is what I have to do, I only answer the questions so that I can do it.

They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn't get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.

You can't plan to reach another person on a deep level, it just happens. So those are the moments that I think I really live for.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them.

There's people been friendly But they'd never be your friends Sometimes this has bent me to the ground