Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity.

To have everything written for you It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

There are only two types of music.good and bad.

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.

If you can play, you can play anything. I don't like classifications.

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.