I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth grade.

I have to decide whether I'm just laying down a groove, kind of a bed and canvas for the lyrics and music to live on, or trying to illustrate something in the lyrics.

I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm.

I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy.

I hope that people don't need to look at the liner notes to be affected by the music.

You get a timeless cool card in New York.

I am proud of my heritage and my family.

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Do it big, do it right, and do it with style.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution says Congress has the ability to coin money and regulate the currency and doesn't say anything about gold or silver.

As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall in my soul.

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.