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.

I try not to think about the drums themselves. If I do, I'll end up hitting myself in the head with a drumstick, or sustaining some weird injury.

I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.

I guess a lot of bands play around until they come up with something they like.

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

That's one of the things that always grabbed me about rock music: There's a song, and you know how it goes, and you can sort of predict it, but a lot is left up to chance and interaction.

I'm not unswayed by the opinions of others. I actually really value that, the idea that you can feel things the way somebody else might feel them is a really big part of doing music for me.