I don't think I really started to seriously compose until around that time when I was 40.

The best thing is to find something you really love to do and enjoy that process for the rest of your life.

I have great samples of my drums and I try to program them pretty much how I want to play them, try and make it feel natural even though it's programmed.

I'm not going to limit myself in ways to compose or how I should record. You just do what you can with what you've got at the moment.

Japan and Europe seem to have a little more cultural education and so the crowds have been a little more big and enthusiastic, and the places I've played seem a little more classy.

Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic.

I'm happy doing what I do. That's ok. Some guy could appear tomorrow and do it much better than me, and so be it, but right now I'm just happy to be who I am doing what I do.

You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be.

I just want to make music on the drums.

You just chip away until the puzzle is complete.

I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.

Faith is the most unexercised muscle known to man.

When I was young, I believed God was a woman because I couldn't come up with any other explanation as to why the universe was so tidy.

Love is when two people who care for each other get confused.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

I make money from touring and selling merchandise, and I honestly believe if you put effort into something and you execute properly, you don't necessarily have to go through the traditional ways.

No guy in the history of America has ordered a Smirnoff Ice at a bar without hating himself a little.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

I have an ego the size of a small planet.

Men like to squash you. I just want someone who's happy with himself, happy with his life. He doesn't have to squash mine.

The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum.