I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.
If you put the right things out there the right things will happen.
Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.
I feel really good in the teacher role.
My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.
You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.