I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.

I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?

I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.

I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.

I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning.

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there.

I am just a guy who plays drums.

I mean, we just started, it's a new thing. We're doing this for fun and we're going to see where it goes.

I love the farm, I love growing stuff.

All religions are mere echoes of this one great religion of Humanism.

Winning or losing achieves the same result--change.

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.

Everyone complains of his lack of memory but nobody of his want of judgement.

If they do kill me I shall never die another death.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.

Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to him belong, they are weak, but he is strong.

He was his own leftover, the spat-out scrag. He was what his brain could make nothing of.

I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.