My projects are just side effects of what I obsess over, what I chat about, what random things pop into my head, what I dream at night.

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.

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'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.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

The pull of lingering dreams, the strong, bitter tasteof morning coffee, the ticking clock, and horn of awaiting busform a powerful combination to kick-start the day

Look at resistances to change as a source of energy and where there is energy there is still passion and potential.

They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

Exercise can't counteract the damage being done to your body while you continue to smoke. What exercise can do is help you kick the habit.

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry.

Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters.

Grace renders us like God and a partaker of the divine nature.