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.

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

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

You either swing a band or don't swing a band and that's what's lacking today.. There aren't any guys who get back there and play with any kind of guts.

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.

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.