Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.

Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.

And more importantly, I wouldnt be the person I am today, I wouldnt be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasnt for the accident.

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy.

I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.

I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country.

I have never been one for the over-the-top.

What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.

Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon women. The process of eating guarantees at least the health of the body.

Before I was a comedian, I thought the coolest thing that would happen to me was being a teenager... Boy, was I wrong!

In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property.

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.

Selfless giving means forgeting about yourself. It means letting go and doing something crazy.

Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of Bach and Beethoven are subsidized.

I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll.

Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine.