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

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.

It's very difficult to make a living in music these days. All it takes is somebody paying.

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

The way we teach is a very linear kind of way.

I have tons of tunes, maybe 30 tunes that I still think are great, and only because some jerk at a record company didn't think it was great, it's not out there.

From the time I started playing solo drums, doing clinics and stuff, you know I think one of the largest selling clinics I ever did was in Chicago.