I have music in my head; I can't help it. You can put a gun to my head and it's not going to go away. The privilege is that I'm not being prevented from following that.

I try not to think about the drums themselves. If I do, I'll end up hitting myself in the head with a drumstick, or sustaining some weird injury.

I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.

I'm not unswayed by the opinions of others. I actually really value that, the idea that you can feel things the way somebody else might feel them is a really big part of doing music for me.

What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.

There's part of me that feels a privilege not to do music, but to do what everybody should be allowed to do, which is to do what you're driven to do.

It's weird to me to even say, "I wrote this song." I never feel like I wrote it; I feel like I heard it.

I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.

It's very heartening to see people who I used to do music with still doing it.

That's one of the things that always grabbed me about rock music: There's a song, and you know how it goes, and you can sort of predict it, but a lot is left up to chance and interaction.

When we play, every day is different. All three of my bandmates surprise me all the time.

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

If you capture someone's heart, you will eventually get his hands and feet as well.

I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.

Think of Instagram. Journalism will continue to exist, but communication is now visual.

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.