I just want to make music on the drums.

I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.

All of your experience comes into play when you're composing.

People YouTube me and crap and then, they probably don't want to see me after seeing a friendly posted YouTube video, so I'm constantly having to take those down.

It's very difficult to make a living in music these days. All it takes is somebody paying.

Being a professional does not have a very high standard.

I had been composing just for myself, and people would say I played so orchestrally, and wondered if I thought about having someone write a piece for me for an orchestra. And I thought, I don't want someone else to write that. You know I finally had made an overhead chart of my drums and what pitches the cymbals and toms were tuned to, and what have you. And I started to compose just with what I had for my solo drumming.