I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.

I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage.

Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.

Every song is like a painting.

I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.

I became stereotyped.