Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.
I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
The nurses were all angels in my eyes.
My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.
My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.
I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.
To even win a nomination in this country, you have to say you're a person of great faith. You have to pledge to the people out there that you put your faith in things that are unable to be proven - that you suspend critical thinking as the way to go.
I do work hard at trying to find the right expression for something, which might be like finding the right image - choosing not only the right words but down to the right number of lines. I remember being in Maine once at Colby College with Alex Katz. It houses hundreds of his works. There was a painting of just one seagull against a blue sky. I was admiring it and Alex said, "45 brush strokes exactly. "
All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art. '
Once I've settled on something I'll stay with that at least throughout the whole tour.