Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer."

I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.

Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

No one gets to their heaven without a fight...