The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician.

A good groove releases adrenaline in your body. You feel uplifted, you feel centered, you feel calm, you feel powerful. You feel that energy. That's what good drumming is all about.

Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that’s what we are.

When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet.

The voice of the drum is a spirit thing.

In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.

When you are drumming and really feeling the music, the beat, it is like you are transported to a different place, where you feel so exhilirated and calm through your whole body.

Everywhere you look on the planet people are using drums to alter consciousness.

Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

Give your weakness to one who helps.

If you wanna be a writer, you must learn to paint a picture with words.

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together. I just cry and laugh.

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.

Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?

God didn't create any of us to be average. He didn't make us to barely get by. We were created to excel.

I don't want to be so confident in myself.