Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.

You only get better by playing.

And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.

But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.

Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

My eyes still swelled with tears, but my heart was dancing the lazgi.

I am a clown, just without the painted smile.

The big scandal was when I was in seventh grade and I modeled a bathing suit. Everybody freaked out!

I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.

With God, it isn’t who you were that matters; it’s who you are becoming.

New York is my, you know, second hometown.

I guess that's my defence, is like - even if people think it sucks - it's not me anymore, you know.

Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.

New York is very user-friendly if you don't want to be in a car all the time. It can also provide you with surprises because it's so compressed - if you walk around, you just find things.

I'll take my five positions per second any day, thank you