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.

I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.

I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.

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

If you think you stink, you probably do.

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

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