I'm pretty proud of everything I've done.

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.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Time is your valuable treasure, use time for your own accomplishment.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall.

When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows.

Want to get in trouble with me, Carlos?

In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.

Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.