Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.

All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me.

It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.

Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.

Energy is the prime mover of all we see and know. You change the energy and your body has to respond.

I got my hat pulled up low and no one can really see me. I'm ducked out. People do recognize me, and I have a pretty interesting fan base. It's a diverse group.

We are always in transition.

I would want to see the Supreme Court reverse Citizens United and get dark, unaccountable money out of our politics.

Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.

I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.