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

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.

I'd love to do music for films.

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

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.

I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and then you use these words to create a story, but with music. And they really need to know how to mix and match those letters and how to come up with something that is really interesting, or speak in metaphors as poets do to show us something maybe we didn't think about.

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.