I'm happy doing what I do. That's ok. Some guy could appear tomorrow and do it much better than me, and so be it, but right now I'm just happy to be who I am doing what I do.

I always liked to make something creative.

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

I've composed all my life and kept things, and even developed things I've done in college into something now.

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.

From the time I started playing solo drums, doing clinics and stuff, you know I think one of the largest selling clinics I ever did was in Chicago.

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