If you have any requests. keep them to yourselves. we don't play requests!

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

If you think you stink, you probably do.

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

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

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.

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.