I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.

For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing.

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

...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.

All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.

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.