You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific.

I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.

Hopefully we'll be doing this forever, but we'll only have one first time.

A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat that is progress.

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no was around I'd kiss the screen.

You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.

Whenever I'm sad I just imagine if babies were born with mustaches.

Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts.