To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!

To me, groups of musicians playing together, not fighting each other, but playing a groove together is one of the most exciting things to listen to.

I don't want to preach, but I really think the rudiments are very important to developing your drumming skills. Many of the patterns I've recorded came from things like paradiddles, flam paradiddles, flam triplets... They might be boring to sit down and practice, but not when you apply them to the drums.

I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better.

I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.

I never said I was at the Alamo. Someone else said I was at the Alamo. Now I'm a nutter. I don't think that's fair.