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

I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.

I shined off high school band, marching, jazz studies. At the time I was too cool for school, I had this professional gig and I was going home taking a shower and heading to downtown Hawaii, Waikiki.

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.

Once I became a cop and it's like when I got back into drumming; if I focus on something I become that, so I became a cop.

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.

Playing drums or music, being a musician, is inside of you. So you would always see me tapping on something, playing on tables... I never felt the need to pull out drums.