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.

I always liked to make something creative.

There's many possibilities for anything.

If you enjoy learning, if you enjoy the curiosity of music and what can be done with it, and stop looking at it as something you have to do because someone says this is what you have to do to be a professional, you know, learn it because you're curious about it and then I think you'll have a much better creative sense and enable this inner voice to come out. These things are not taught and are not encouraged.

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.

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

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