There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing.

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

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.