I play drums, and I'd recommend it to anyone, except maybe your neighbors. It's great exercise - physical, mental, emotional, and social. It takes deep concentration but also activates concentration. If you're doing it right, it's always just a little harder than what you can actually pull off.

When it's time to write a new song, anything that you thought you understood last time is pretty much pulverized.

There's part of me that feels a privilege not to do music, but to do what everybody should be allowed to do, which is to do what you're driven to do.

My projects are just side effects of what I obsess over, what I chat about, what random things pop into my head, what I dream at night.

When it comes down to intuition, when it comes down to gut feelings about whether a song is right, you can get distracted with words, rationalization. There's nothing wrong with music school, but part of music school has to be the ability to forget all of it, too.

I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.

Usually if someone starts making universal claims, I tune right on out.