I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.

I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

Blood and death. That moves me.

I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

At this point I thought 'We made it, ' by which I meant 'We survived.' I also was acutely aware that my childhood dream of flying into space had just come true.

Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.

I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

Jews are a perverse people, accursed by God forever.

In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational.

As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality.

I've lived in America for many years. I mean, I love being a Canadian, but I truly identify with America. I love America so much.

We always get into trouble when we doubt God's love, because when we don't trust him, we don't obey him.

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.