I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.

Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half

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.

It is impossible to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and be a Republican. It's philosophically absolutely opposed - if they could only think about what they were saying for a minute. That's when you get caught up in the webs of what people call themselves and how they behave.

Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.

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...'

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