There are things I've kept over the years and then someday I might pull up a program of some tune that I've done and I go "Wow, I know what to do with this now".

The best thing is to find something you really love to do and enjoy that process for the rest of your life.

I have great samples of my drums and I try to program them pretty much how I want to play them, try and make it feel natural even though it's programmed.

I'm not going to limit myself in ways to compose or how I should record. You just do what you can with what you've got at the moment.

Japan and Europe seem to have a little more cultural education and so the crowds have been a little more big and enthusiastic, and the places I've played seem a little more classy.

Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic.

I'm happy doing what I do. That's ok. Some guy could appear tomorrow and do it much better than me, and so be it, but right now I'm just happy to be who I am doing what I do.

You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be.

I just want to make music on the drums.

You just chip away until the puzzle is complete.

I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.

You can't control anything in this world except your perception and emotion.

You can get anything you want in this life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Summer flings always seemed amazing in movies, though that might be because the leading man did not ever call his romantic interest "dude.

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms of painting itself.

Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

Gandhi said the end is inherent in the means, which means you cannot create any more peace than you yourself have attained. An angry generation will not bring peace.

I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space.

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.