Inspiration

... there is no better job than being in a good rhythm section. When everything’s working right, you become transfixed with the notes and the chords and the beautiful spaces in between. In the center of it, with the drums, bass, and guitar all around you, the earth falls away and it’s just you and your crew creating this forward motion, this undeniable, magical stuff that can move ten thousand people to snap free of life’s miseries ...

If at first you don't succeed, keep sucking til you do suck-ceed.

Creativity is making the complicated simple.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else up.

You can read all the textbooks, and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

Just practice 10 hours a day and you'll have no problems.

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.

Music is the space between the notes. It’s not the notes you play; it’s the notes you don’t play.

I play every gig as if it could be my last. Then I enjoy it more than ever.

I find that the fewer notes I play the better I sound.