Legacy above finances; artistry above fame.

Music is my life. It is sacred.

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.

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

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’ve always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

When I’m at home I practice everyday.

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn’t understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.

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

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