I just want to make music on the drums.

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

I'm not Stravinsky, I never will be.

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.

I think my music is great for film, but I don't have the opportunity, or goesche to go and pitch myself to Hollywood.

Japan and Europe seem to have a little more cultural education and so the crowds have been a little more big and enthusiastic, and the places I've played seem a little more classy.

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.