Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.

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.

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