Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.

I'd rather duplicate it myself. Another of our favourite techniques.

Ive got Arabic music in my blood.

Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.

I studied music for my first two years in college. When I went to UC Berkeley, I failed the admission requirements to get into the music school there, so I studied communications and public policy, which actually were a greater engine for my career than a musical education would have been. If I had gotten into the music department at Berkeley, I'd probably be a timpanist in an orchestra right now.