Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

A good groove releases adrenaline in your body. You feel uplifted, you feel centered, you feel calm, you feel powerful. You feel that energy. That's what good drumming is all about.

Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that’s what we are.

When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet.

The voice of the drum is a spirit thing.

In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.

When you are drumming and really feeling the music, the beat, it is like you are transported to a different place, where you feel so exhilirated and calm through your whole body.

Everywhere you look on the planet people are using drums to alter consciousness.

Dreams sometimes foretell the future.

The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it's addicting, really.

No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.

I am what I eat. And I am this especially when I bite my nails.

Young black men are considered dangerous, expendable, threatening and part of a culture of criminality.

Going back to Baltimore is awesome because all my friends still live there and there's never a dull moment when you're hanging out with your high-school friends.

In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects.

Too late, but I understand. That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that -- of just that.

Oh yes!...The sweet summons of God to man. That's when He calls you up to His arms. And it's the most beautiful thing, a rebirth, a new life. But, just the same I'm in no rush to find out.

In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages.

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.