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.

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.

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.

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.

Look beyond what you see.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

The goal of all goals is happiness, and our emotions are like road signs on that journey toward the goal of happiness.

Both teams are making mistakes. Florida's making these itsy-bitsy little ones, and Tennessee is making huge, gigantic mistakes.

Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.

How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts

I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.