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.

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

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.

You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law and Order,' the Benjamin Bratt/Jerry Orbach era.

I know," he said, looking down at himself self-consciously. "I am not-I mean, I look-" "Beautiful," she said, and she meant it. "You look beautiful, James Carstairs.

What is modesty but inverted pride?

Donald Trump's big goal is to become the richest man in the world, abusing the powers of the presidency.

I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.

I know perfectly well that you can't not want anything and live.

My longings are best met when, in prayer, I simply let my heart beat in time with the Lord's.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

I can't stand any music that requires its singers to be so dumb they wear their baseball caps backwards.