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

I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.

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.

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

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.

No, I don't like recording. It's a bore.