The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.

But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there and see it, you know, in a real situation.

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.