I have great samples of my drums and I try to program them pretty much how I want to play them, try and make it feel natural even though it's programmed.

In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.

I'm not going to limit myself in ways to compose or how I should record. You just do what you can with what you've got at the moment.

In America there are some places that are just gorgeous to play.

You try to improvise in a compositional manner. You don't just do some stupid lick you've been practicing, scale form exercises or something.

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.

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