I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.

I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

Right, those relationships with your parents and family are the hardest to figure out, and the same patterns get carried into a band situation.

The focus of my playing is the groove, and every time I find a new rhythm, I find I can write a bunch of new songs. Learning how to dance, or drum, or to swing my body in a new way is the fundamental way I find a new riff. Because when you learn to swing your body in a new way, you begin to swing with your instrument differently.

On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.

I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.