No one writes about the emotional things you go through.

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.

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.

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.

The struggle to keep aroused emotions within proper boundaries is won by putting a conscious leash on them and leading them like junkyard dogs right to the throne of grace

They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.

Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

stay as strong as you can and during the times you can't, let other people be strong for you.

I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss.

I think that people should do what their heart and soul tells them to do.

I'm not a regular mom, I'm a cool mom.

Time ... thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.