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'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 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'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 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.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Art has a voice - let it speak.

That's old world stuff. It's the ZA now.

Smoking is suicide by instalments.

1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty and business liberty and every other kind of liberty in the phrase that is common in the sporting world "A free field and no favor."

A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.

Enough is so vast a sweetness I suppose it never occurs.

The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.

We're not talking about truth, we're talking about something that seems like truth - the truth we want to exist.

Being human, at times, is very painful, and that leads us to reawakening.