I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

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.

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.

If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

Faith is believe.

Eliminate the impossible. Then if nothing remains, some part of the 'impossible' was possible.

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.

I'm not a big fan of remakes. And even if they are good, they're still not as good as the original, so what's the point?

Capital isn't hard to find; intuition, yes.

I love my baby like the finest wine, I'll stick with her until the end of time.

If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for Iron Giant, and I'm not even on the screen.