You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be.

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.

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.

It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.

Eating cholesterol and bad fat will contribute to heart disease if and only if you bathe them in a massive lifelong overdose of insulin and glucose.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.

The whole pot-to-alcohol thing is a huge issue with me, because I've grown to hate drunks so much, and like potheads.

If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What would you rather hear if not the truth?

Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.