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.

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

I think my music is great for film, but I don't have the opportunity, or goesche to go and pitch myself to Hollywood.

You don't know where you're going.

I'm pretty proud of everything I've done.

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

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.