It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.

All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me.

Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

All the lessons you learn in film school from the people you hate are always the ones that are important. The lessons you think are great and thankful for never end up meaning anything to you.

I think that we really fool ourselves about our ability to be safe and secure nowadays.

Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.

I believe that every people and every nation has the right to be free and independent.

You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.

There is no substitute for the riches gained on a lifetime basis by the young American who studies or works abroad.

Radio helps DJs break into a whole different audience. Radio has so much power. And that's my mission: to not only break into the EDM audience, but to break also into the mainstream audience.

When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.