If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.

It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.

Music is a way of life, it's everything. I play drums and that's what I believe I was born to do.

That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.

I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.

To me John Coltrane was like an angel on earth. He struck me that deeply.

You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me.

I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.

Books are keys that open many doors.

The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

Alan Pardew has had to juggle his pack.

There's a universe inside your head - a place of pictures and passions, of songs and sorrows. It's everything you are - and it's an utter mystery.

'What's a couple?' I asked my mum. She said, 'Two or three'. Which probably explains why her marriage collapsed

They can see their neighbors. Roosters and dogs can be heard from there. Still, they will age and die without visiting one another.

You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the obvious isn't real to you anymore.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Hate is a hole that exists in your heart; and the more that you hate, the more you fall apart.