I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.

I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

Blood and death. That moves me.

I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder--for them it was enough to exist and go their way.

Opportunities don’t make U turns.

In a normal family, surprise means presents, cake and a party. My family, surprise means homelessness, abandonment and destruction of private property. Sometimes we have cake. We're not losers.

They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise!

New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering programming costs.

Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves.

One of the crises that we have to deal with is a crisis of law enforcement officials that are not physically capable enough to handle without taking out the gun.

Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.