When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When the artist makes a mistak….

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility..

I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing in my ve….

There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band..

Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing..

What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely..

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians..

The plot details of B movies are irrational: accept that people do things that are contradictory, against their own best interests, have short term a….

The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidenc….

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable..

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence..

Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment..

The way we describe our world shows how we think of our world. How we think of our world governs how we interpret our world. How we interpret our wor….

Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice..

What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, includin….

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence..

Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agr….

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say….

The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving..

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence..

I continue to explain that plot inconsistencies in B movies are consistent, and should not be allowed to undermine one's enjoyment of the action, nor….