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 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.

When we play, every day is different. All three of my bandmates surprise me all the time.

You can what you wish to be.

In the future system, you will decide how your bodies look and feel, but only til then will you have the choice.

Always ask yourself what will make you happy over the long term.

We create our fate every day we live.

I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am.

It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.

I do not mean that others represent Jesus for us. I mean that Jesus actually is present in each other person

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