You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.

When we're touring America or Europe, we use our own plane and a great advantage of that is it cuts out an awful lot of time checking in. You literally drive up to the plane, get on and then drive off at the other end.

Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers

I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it.

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

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.