There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.

I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.

I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.

With rock music, it usually revolves around the band. You go in as a band and probably take about a year to record an album. But for a hip-hop song, you can create a track and an idea with verses and choruses in a day, and get three different people on it. It seems like you're able to do more with hip-hop.

All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

I`ve always liked Dennis Chambers, he`s real flashy.