In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.

A good groove releases adrenaline in your body. You feel uplifted, you feel centered, you feel calm, you feel powerful. You feel that energy. That's what good drumming is all about.

Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that’s what we are.

When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet.

The voice of the drum is a spirit thing.

When you are drumming and really feeling the music, the beat, it is like you are transported to a different place, where you feel so exhilirated and calm through your whole body.

Everywhere you look on the planet people are using drums to alter consciousness.

Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

Dreams sometimes foretell the future.

A good preview makes you can’t wait to see the whole movie.

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

Every moment is not great and sometimes those are the moments in which you learn the most.

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.

No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

I have decided to denounce communism, though I love the Communists. I don't find it to be right to preach the gospel without denouncing communism.

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.