If it's the beginning of something - like an album, I'm working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.
Phil CollinsDrummers get bored. You tell them to play something simple, and it gets more complicated as they do it. If they're not a composer, if they don't have any kind of investment in the music, they'll just add a bit there and another bit there, and you think no! Don't do that. So you end up using a drum machine.
Phil Collins