Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

If you put the right things out there the right things will happen.

Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.

No one writes about the emotional things you go through.

I take my craft very seriously.

My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.

If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.

There’s not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.

Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.

An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.

The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

All shall love me and despair.

The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake.

Normally, when I read a script, it takes me two and a half hours. I usually put it down and come back to it. So, I know if I can read a script in one sitting, it's a fantastic script.

Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Anger makes people stupid.