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.

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

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.

I don't know where I'm going, and I don't care where I'm going. As long as I can just do it.

Every cloud doesn't have a silver lining but making time to look at the beauty of clouds can give you peace of mind

A mantra is like meeting the Buddha or Bodhisattva himself.

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.

Life is a b*tch depending how you dress her.

If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.

Love is the most powerful energy there is.

I think you run out of 'I love yous

I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.