It all comes down to who you crucify, you either kiss the past or future good-bye.

I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.

Gaps can be very emotional. I mean, that's in my drumming. When I drum, you know, I don't need to drum all over the track. I play with the singer and I can back off.

I know when I feel good when I play. There's a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it's still playing live. For me, it's what expands my soul.

Every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to. Even as a Beatle, they'd say, 'Oh, double-track that.' I don't know how you do that, because when I'm in a fill I'm sort of this blackout, just this pure me coming out and I can't pure me the same, twice. So, that's that.

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

I've never had any big ideas about being the solo.