I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.

There were a lot more girls at the shows early on. I'd get off stage and there would be options. Those days are long gone, thank god.

When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing. After all of these years, I'm still trying to cope with aspects of it.

The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound.

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.

I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.