When it's time to write a new song, anything that you thought you understood last time is pretty much pulverized.

I play drums, and I'd recommend it to anyone, except maybe your neighbors. It's great exercise - physical, mental, emotional, and social. It takes deep concentration but also activates concentration. If you're doing it right, it's always just a little harder than what you can actually pull off.

I have music in my head; I can't help it. You can put a gun to my head and it's not going to go away. The privilege is that I'm not being prevented from following that.

I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.

It's weird to me to even say, "I wrote this song." I never feel like I wrote it; I feel like I heard it.

It's a great privilege to be able to play that much. When you play a lot, you can be really detail-oriented.

I'm against American corporations buying politicians to remove limits to greed, capitalizing on other people's misery, actively creating misery on which to capitalize, "financializing" every moment of our enslaved lives. Then when China or somebody takes over, then it will be [them] doing those things that I'll be against.