The best thing is to find something you really love to do and enjoy that process for the rest of your life.

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

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.

I don't have to be a success. I can just try.

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

Some great experiences I've had and little by little I've come to the realization that everything Frank Zappa told me was the truth, whether I wanted to believe it or not. You know, I was young and naive or in denial. But he really was a special, special human being.

I just want to make music on the drums.