If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

Live for yourself... there's no one else more worth living for...

To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.

The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.

The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.

Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet

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...'