Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.

Music never goes away. It is always available, but we're not always available for music.

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing in my veins to prompt minimal sentience, to declare my view for the record that Drummer Jokes are a cruel and pernicious form of humour introduced to the world by under-humoured persons lacking in sensitivity and concern for other drummers.

Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.