You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.

I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose freewill.

You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.

Look in, look the storm in the eye. Look out, to the sea and the sky. Look around, at the sight and sound. Look in, look out, look around.

Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever; but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.

Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled

Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer."