I'm very grateful to be where I'm at and be able to play. That's really the bottom line for me. Survival and being able to play.

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.

There is such a shelter in each other.

In relation to law I am doubtful whether, even at the present time, science has fairly begun.

I will not be threatened. Do you understand me?’ He leaned closer again, his lips less than a couple of inches from hers. ‘Now try saying it without trembling.

What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.

Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.

I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.

A lot of people change their band names because they're looking for a change of atmosphere.

I was in a couple punk bands as a kid. I did some more experimental stuff with my friend Dan for a few years.