When I'm at home I practice everyday.

If you put the right things out there the right things will happen.

Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.

No one writes about the emotional things you go through.

I take my craft very seriously.

My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

The best defence against mafia business is full declaration of assets and incomes.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

It's not my fault who I am. The only think that's my fault is what I choose to do

Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.

Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.

Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.