Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.
Just living is not enough. . . one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.
Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.
Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence
The pressure, the heat, the almost impossibly fast pace at which you need work - this is the reality of working in the culinary industry. This is what professional chefs do night after night.
Inevitably in my career of 35 years, I was in one turnaround circumstance after another, and I was personally put in positions of significant responsibility but without complete authority over everyone that needed to be mobilized.
I'm glad I can do both full-band electric and solo acoustic performances. It's nice to have contrast, so if you get fed up with one, you can just switch to the other one. It's great to go to a town and play an acoustic show, and then you can come back a year later and play electric, and the show's really fairly different. The repertoire will be 50 percent different. The musical energy is completely different.
It is impossible to call yourself a Christian and defend homosexuality. There is no justification or acceptance of homosexuality. . . Homosexuality means the death of society because homosexuals can recruit, but they cannot reproduce.