People don’t realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.
When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, “If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!”
And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.
Adventures suck when you’re having them.
No changes are permanent, but change is.
From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.
No one gets to their heaven without a fight.
Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.
We’re only immortal for a limited time.
It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.
I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn’t skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.
I’m still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it’s intended to be a joke.
Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.
Too much attention and hoopla doesn’t agree with my temperament.
Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.
I expect if you’re a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn’t want to go onstage and sing and play drums.
If it’s cross-country ski season, I’ll be out doing that, or snowshoeing up in Quebec. In my California home, I go to the local Y and I like doing yoga. It’s been hugely beneficial to me in injury avoidance.
Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will – all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.
To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.
Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway.