I want to deal with what's in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that's not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great.

In 1989 I sort of got back into the music business and one of the reasons I got back in is [that] I put the first All Stars band together. It's actually progressed from that every other year, or every two years, I've put that together...more and more realizing that's what I do.

Drumming is my middle name.

You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy.

The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.