I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.

If you put the right things out there the right things will happen.

Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

No one writes about the emotional things you go through.

I take my craft very seriously.

My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.

Women are seen as imperfect or unclean, because of a myth of a tempting apple, because they bleed monthly, because they lack equivalent upper body strength.

I’m going to kiss you.”Another whimper, but she didn’t jerk from his hold. “I know, and that’s an extremely bad idea.

Flesh is willing, but the Soul requiresSisyphean patience for its song, Time, Hippocrates remarked, is shortand Art is long.

It becomes harder and harder to say where the world stops and the person begins.

It's all about concentration and repetition. That's all it is.

Ban walking sticks in wilderness. Hikers that use walking sticks are more likely to chase animals.

Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.

I've been in true love many times. I just try to avoid it as much as possible. For if there's one thing I know about true love, it is that sooner or later, it results in a hostage situation.

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

I had a standing arrangement with God: I'd agree to believe in him—barely—so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.