Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes.

I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as the ultimate accomplishment of a musician. Composing makes me feel like I've finally gotten all the way up the ladder as a musician.

Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes.

Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions.

If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes.

You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

I usually say I left puberty at 58.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

When I graduated from college, I moved to New York and started doing improv because I read all about the early 'Saturday Night Live' guys having come through Second City and learning how to improvise, so I wanted to get immediately into that.

We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to 'build nations.' And when we cannot be sure how to improve the world, hubristic visions pose a grave danger.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

When I'm on the road, restaurants are like gyms: I know where I want to be in each city.

Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which those subliminal feelings of social connection travel from skin to brain.

I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to have a lot of camaraderie, and when you're constantly compared to someone else, it kind of damages that camaraderie, but I think this is a great trend. I'm honored to be a part of it in many ways.

Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

Before backbitting someone to someone else make sure you are flawless.

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

I was 30 when I did 'The Matrix.' When you turn 30, your life and your world view change. I remember feeling relieved - it was like I was seeing things in a deeper way.

What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.

Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.

And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.