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

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway

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

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.

I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.

One likes to believe in the freedom of music...