Sometimes you're up against everybody in the whole world - even your friends and family are saying, "You need a single." You feel sometimes incredibly alone.

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

One likes to believe in the freedom of music...

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing.

...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.

I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.