So, practice, particularly after you've attained a job, any kind of job, like playing with a four piece band, that's... an opportunity to develop.

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.

There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.

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.

Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

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