When the snares don't hit together, it's just the most awful thing to hear.

Even on the drum level, it's all about stating your theme, going back to certain things that need to be emphasized, not doing fills for the sake of doing fills.

I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.

I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.

Sometimes the band can't fully hear your fill, so they come in differently. So I've also learned not to really step out too much, because you sacrifice the band when you do that.

I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.

I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand.

It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about.

When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

We've got many different sides of music to us.

But I've gravitated more towards the drum set.

When the snares don't hit together, it's just the most awful thing to hear.

We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.

Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.

I've always liked funk and rock and everything.

When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.

I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that.

India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world.

I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

In a first pregnancy, you don't have a child yet, so you can nap and see movies and exercise. The notion of 'baby' is abstract. You look at the ultrasound and don't really understand that the creature you're seeing is soon going to be your roommate.

It doesn't matter who wins if I don't. I only care if I win. I'm jealous of anyone else who wins.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

If chance will have me king why chance may crown me.

Over time, we amass limiting beliefs about how life supposedly is - beliefs that are not valid. Then we allow these limiting beliefs to stop us from fully living our happiest lives.

Wagner's philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn't written a single word against Jews. Wagner's book on the Jews was one of the most infamous books of the 19th century.

I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.

People just deserve to be treated with kindness.

The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

I would love to produce a film.

Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self control. When mixed with an already clear conscience the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps ones conscience both clear and at ease.

Things come in waves, and I'm always more interested in places like, for instance, Chicago, where people don't follow fashion. They're not galloping past your window on the way to the latest anything. They're living their lives. You do a play, they come and see it and say, 'That's nice', and then they go home.

It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.

My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.

The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

If a D.C. event doesn't have crab cakes, it's low-rent and you need to flee.

Even though Da Vinci was a genius, it's important to remember he was just a man.

Many persons swear by positive thinking, and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can be downright harmful in some cases.

The only thing I didn't like as a kid was I was required to do a minimum of 3 hours of schoolwork every day, and there was a tutor on set.