In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.

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.

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.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

My kind of wanting to be funny didn't come from need, necessarily. The closest I can analyze it is that it was an easy way to make friends, I found out. It was just a great kind of social tool.

Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.

The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.

At 50, you probably get muddled? I'm the same, that's how I know? If you ever get lost, don't worry? Just change where you want to go

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.

Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's.