The way we teach is a very linear kind of way.

I just want to make music on the drums.

I have tons of tunes, maybe 30 tunes that I still think are great, and only because some jerk at a record company didn't think it was great, it's not out there.

I don't think I really started to seriously compose until around that time when I was 40.

I'd love to do music for films.

We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in.

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