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.

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.

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.

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.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

Do not drown yourself into fantasy, whatever you can do, do it now, do not wait for tomorrow to come.

There is no reason to assume our species will survive itself.

Love is love. It doesn't matter what kind it is.

I tried to think but nothing happened!

Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.

If, by chance, you find that you are losing hope, tap back into those who inspire you.

Tundra is a huge, forever frozen wetland covering the entire coast of the Arctic Ocean.

Help your pieces so they can help you