I learned how to play the music working with my dad. Because in the beginning I was super excited, I had this gig, I was a kid, I got cocky and didn't want to take lessons.

I immersed myself in the police work and I guess drumming wasn't even a hobby, just something my body naturally wanted to do, tapping stuff.

It works for me, the way I play drums and the things I do but I also would like to know proper technique. Mainly for health - to last longer, be able to play longer.

Even though sometimes you feel like you're hand cuffed you're really not because it really takes skill to play the music properly.

My brother (Bruno Mars) is as smart as he is because a lot of things he's doing, creativity wise, our Dad used to do. Things my father used to do visually and musically. I see a lot of my father's influence in both of us.

I am self taught. My dad threw me in with a drum set at the age of four and I figured it out!

As a drummer my job is to reproduce what made the people bop their heads when they first heard the album on the radio, or when they watched the music video.