According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.

I hear a lot of cries of socialism and certainly real disguises of "Why should I share my money with these people?" We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

At the end of the day, I don't release any records that I'm not proud to put my name on. I never got to that point.

Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.