When we play, every day is different. All three of my bandmates surprise me all the time.

I try not to think about the drums themselves. If I do, I'll end up hitting myself in the head with a drumstick, or sustaining some weird injury.

I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.

I have music in my head; I can't help it. You can put a gun to my head and it's not going to go away. The privilege is that I'm not being prevented from following that.

I'm not unswayed by the opinions of others. I actually really value that, the idea that you can feel things the way somebody else might feel them is a really big part of doing music for me.

What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.

There's part of me that feels a privilege not to do music, but to do what everybody should be allowed to do, which is to do what you're driven to do.

It's weird to me to even say, "I wrote this song." I never feel like I wrote it; I feel like I heard it.

I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.

It's very heartening to see people who I used to do music with still doing it.

That's one of the things that always grabbed me about rock music: There's a song, and you know how it goes, and you can sort of predict it, but a lot is left up to chance and interaction.

The ones you least expect earn the greatest respect.

Love makes the world go round, but sometimes you spin so much you end up dizzy.

Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles fed my soul, But I loved the silver willow best of all.

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

It is time for us to say no, we are not going to backwards, we're going forward into a brighter future.

The times we find ourselves having to wait on others may be the perfect opportunities to train ourselves to wait on the Lord.

I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day.

I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.

To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers.

I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.