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

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.

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.

If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.

But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.

Future is the most difficult problem of our era.

We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.

Religion is always falling apart.

The enormous faith of many made for one.

I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.

Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom.

Act quickly, think slowly.

We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.

It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.