Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink.

I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks.

Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back.

You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.

You need good training partners - because you’re only as good as your training partners - and a strong desire to always get better.

I have a lot of health anxiety.

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)

Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.

This is extremely challenging when you sound like a 12-year-old girl, and you decide your first personal endeavor is to play, like, a - like, a very macho dude.

Jesus suffered deeply because He loves us deeply! He wants us to repent and be converted so that He can fully heal us.

It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.