If I practice I'll really alienate people..

The best thing is to find something you really love to do and enjoy that process for the rest of your life..

I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music..

You just chip away until the puzzle is complete..

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 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….

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

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….

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

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….

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 ….

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'm not Stravinsky, I never will be..

Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic..

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

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 just want to make music on the drums..

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….

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….