Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic.

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.

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.

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

If Mere Christianity helps make Christianity comprehensible, Orthodoxy makes it weird again.

All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.

Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.

Remember: Life is short, break the rules

The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy.

The story of humans is the story of ideas that shine light into dark corners.

Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.