Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity.

You only get better by playing.

And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.

But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.

Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

Your perspective changes when you put God first by praising Him!

A fictional Dystopia is better than a fake Utopia.

I'd like to have a go at directing.

If you don't love your fellow man, women, person, then you don't have anything. If you don't treat your neighbor as you would want to be treated that to me is the fundamental message.

Well, it's funny because, "The Green Leaves of Summer" and "The Alamo" theme are the same thing. There's just - the Brothers Four was a different recording of it.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

The world doesn't owe you a living, but just when you needed it, a door was opened for you to make a difference.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.

That's what I am, America's nightmare. I am what you made me, the hate and evil that you gave me.