Everywhere you look on the planet people are using drums to alter consciousness.

A good groove releases adrenaline in your body. You feel uplifted, you feel centered, you feel calm, you feel powerful. You feel that energy. That's what good drumming is all about.

Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that’s what we are.

When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet.

The voice of the drum is a spirit thing.

In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.

When you are drumming and really feeling the music, the beat, it is like you are transported to a different place, where you feel so exhilirated and calm through your whole body.

Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

Dreams sometimes foretell the future.

If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen.

...without knowing why, he yielded to the temptation of those lips and flung onto them, eating them, partaking of their sacrament... Eucharist of love with a red host!

How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?

a labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing.

For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew.

What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.

The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.

A plaintiff who comes into a Court of justice must show that he is in a condition to maintain his action.

When you've got it, flaunt it.