The musical mystery is: How do you marry tuned percussion and voice? On a metaphorical level, everything that's really important - like the clouds, the sky and the earth - is a giant mystery.

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.

Dreams sometimes foretell the future.

Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.

A good groove releases adrenaline in your body. You feel uplifted, you feel centered, you feel calm, you feel powerful. You feel that energy. That's what good drumming is all about.