If you're learning a new instrument, have fun.

There's so much interaction between the crowd and the music that it's an incredible moment to be a part of.

I can't think of anybody we toured with that had more impact on us than Queen.

I would go see local bands play, and noticed how many girls were there to see the band, and that's what inspired me.

We [ The Kansas]'re somewhat hard-pressed at this time to imagine any bands that'll be around 40 years from now (and that's our personal opinion).

When we were starting out, there was no "label" as progressive rock - it didn't exist ... so we were just a rock band.

I don't enjoy "Dust in the Wind"as much. But I do enjoy "Song for America," "Carry on, Wayward Son," and many songs- Kansas is really a drummer's dream to play in. And I like 'em all.

We actually had a Kansa band softball team.

I've learned a long time ago to never say never about the band Kansas.

In the sacred season, we shall harvest the ripen fruit.

Once I was liable to the same mistakes, but, thanks to God, no longer …’Well, isn’t it just as worthwhile to have devoted and applied yourself to this goal as to have read or written fifty pages?

Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person.

I do pranayama breathing now as a meditation, and that's very helpful. Meditating changed my life.

Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential.

I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

Experience is a funny thing. You dont always have it when you need it.

Humor is the pensiveness of wit.

(In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.

I'm a student of media and I've always been one. I'm fascinated by the way we make the world around us based on pictures and how can we improve our perception of this picture world.