To play the drums, you have to spread your legs and use your arms. It's a very physical instrument to play. It's not feminine.

You've really got to keep on improving and improving and improving. It still involves work. It's not like you get to a point, and then you're good and that's it.

I love to go see live music. That used to be what I would do, almost every other night, and watch drummers play.

I feel like I'm 11 again, with my drums. It doesn't matter if it's good or bad. I'm just playing.

The drums are what drives the whole thing. It's the backbone of the song.

No one really listens to the drums, I don't think. They're there, but it's not a conscious thing to listen to. Everyone listens to the vocals, of course, and the words.

It's uncomfortable, definitely, but it's also really, really great to talk drums with kids and hear them get excited about music and talk about listening to the drums.

Talking about music and talking about drums brings me back to my beginning and the simplicity, and the excitement about trying to play something and see if it works for your band.

It's always inspiring to watch live music.

Becoming limitless involves mental agility

If we truly love Christ, we will want to please and honor Him by the way we live. Even the thought of hurting Him or bringing disgrace to His name will be abhorrent to us.

Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition.

Great triumphs of engineering genius—the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail— ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

It could just be a shift on the axis.

The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.