Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.

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

I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.

Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.

More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began like this: 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...'

Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

It's always a happy day when YYZ appears on our luggage tags.