I am just a guy who plays drums.

I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?

I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.

I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.

I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning.

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.

I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there.

I mean, we just started, it's a new thing. We're doing this for fun and we're going to see where it goes.

I love the farm, I love growing stuff.

Can you hear Destiny laugh as she tiptoes toward you? Destiny is heartless.

...that's what friends did. Let each other off the hook when they didn't want to talk.

No one understands the lines you are writing, and after 25 years you are the only one that speakes that languge .

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

I have a distinct memory, dating back to 1989 or so, of sitting around with my college dorm mates talking about a new term that was popping up everywhere: 'political correctness.'

What has happened in most of my books is the call to the extraordinary world, the hero's push, or that push has come to him.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense that one age is over and a new one is beginning - in business, in politics, in science, in psychology.

I just never get into trouble. It's not my thing.

I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense.