I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.

I try not to think about the drums themselves. If I do, I'll end up hitting myself in the head with a drumstick, or sustaining some weird injury.

I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.

I have music in my head; I can't help it. You can put a gun to my head and it's not going to go away. The privilege is that I'm not being prevented from following that.

I'm not unswayed by the opinions of others. I actually really value that, the idea that you can feel things the way somebody else might feel them is a really big part of doing music for me.

What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.

There's part of me that feels a privilege not to do music, but to do what everybody should be allowed to do, which is to do what you're driven to do.

It's weird to me to even say, "I wrote this song." I never feel like I wrote it; I feel like I heard it.

It's very heartening to see people who I used to do music with still doing it.

That's one of the things that always grabbed me about rock music: There's a song, and you know how it goes, and you can sort of predict it, but a lot is left up to chance and interaction.

When we play, every day is different. All three of my bandmates surprise me all the time.

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.

Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

Yes, I have this crazy honk of a laugh.

To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.

I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look.

Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.

Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help but you must also be aware. Aware of where your skills are welcomed.

Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.