There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history..

Japan and Europe seem to have a little more cultural education and so the crowds have been a little more big and enthusiastic, and the places I've pl….

From the time I started playing solo drums, doing clinics and stuff, you know I think one of the largest selling clinics I ever did was in Chicago..

I just want to make music on the drums..

I'm pretty proud of everything I've done..

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts..

If you enjoy learning, if you enjoy the curiosity of music and what can be done with it, and stop looking at it as something you have to do because s….

Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic..

There are things I've kept over the years and then someday I might pull up a program of some tune that I've done and I go "Wow, I know what to do wit….

You try to improvise in a compositional manner. You don't just do some stupid lick you've been practicing, scale form exercises or something..

I don't know where I'm going, and I don't care where I'm going. As long as I can just do it..

I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and then you use these ….

I married my Japanese wife Mayumi who I'm so happy with, she's been so supportive. I live part time in Japan at her house, so I've been always very i….

I'm not going to limit myself in ways to compose or how I should record. You just do what you can with what you've got at the moment..

You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be..

There's things I'd like to do, but I've found that pretty much anything that I try to will to happen doesn't happen, but if you just kind of let go a….

I'm not a haiku artist, but I wanted to use the phrase 5, 7, 5 in the melody that flows over time. So the string melody, the first one is five notes,….

I have great samples of my drums and I try to program them pretty much how I want to play them, try and make it feel natural even though it's program….

I'm happy doing what I do. That's ok. Some guy could appear tomorrow and do it much better than me, and so be it, but right now I'm just happy to be ….

You just chip away until the puzzle is complete..

I'm not Stravinsky, I never will be..