You only get better by playing.
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.
Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity.
If you have any requests. keep them to yourselves. we don't play requests!
I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.
Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.