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

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.

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.

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.

Who do you think's after you, Shane, my lad? Or is it just the dark you're afeared of?

Trees, how many of 'em do we need to look at?

Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.

A ready smile concealed a firm mind.

Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

When the world makes no sense, go inside yourself, and listen carefully to your needs, until you understand once more.

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.