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.

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.

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.

Courage is the willingness to act in spite of fear.

Trust in yourself, your ability, and your struggles, but not in your appetite.

A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic.

Life either happens by design or default, you choose.

What use is it that knowledge mounts? It's knowing something good that counts.

I always find it much easier when there's one person whose vision you're following, as opposed to many people.

They banned DDT, not because it was necessarily bad, but because it was a great way to help the population control.

I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

The evidence that folic acid reduces the risk of heart disease is pretty strong. [...] And fruits and vegetables are a major source of folic acid.