You just chip away until the puzzle is complete.

There are things I've kept over the years and then someday I might pull up a program of some tune that I've done and I go "Wow, I know what to do with this now".

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.

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

I don't think I can play the game and sell myself.

The first time I ever went to Chicago was with Zappa and I had a fantastic experiences with him and every other band I've played with. It's a great music town.

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.