If you can play, you can play anything. I don't like classifications.

You only get better by playing.

And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.

But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.

Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

The equilibrium of power between God and Human is getting so close

If the truth was equal to the lie, and our love was equal to our hatred, we would become absolutely nil persons.

One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

I get through the tough times through prayer and meditation. And I have really good friends and family, and a great therapist.

I understood early that beauty was power.

The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

A lot of people, when you ask if they want to read your epic poem, start bolting for the door.