Even though sometimes you feel like you're hand cuffed you're really not because it really takes skill to play the music properly.

It works for me, the way I play drums and the things I do but I also would like to know proper technique. Mainly for health - to last longer, be able to play longer.

I am self taught. My dad threw me in with a drum set at the age of four and I figured it out!

I watch YouTube and other peers of mine. There's a lot of things I can't do and also I'm very unorthodox, I want to work on my mechanics and technique.

I immersed myself in the police work and I guess drumming wasn't even a hobby, just something my body naturally wanted to do, tapping stuff.

Playing drums or music, being a musician, is inside of you. So you would always see me tapping on something, playing on tables... I never felt the need to pull out drums.

I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.

Once I became a cop and it's like when I got back into drumming; if I focus on something I become that, so I became a cop.

As a drummer my job is to reproduce what made the people bop their heads when they first heard the album on the radio, or when they watched the music video.

My dad taught me not to overplay, to think about my parts when I play, even in a live situation.

I shined off high school band, marching, jazz studies. At the time I was too cool for school, I had this professional gig and I was going home taking a shower and heading to downtown Hawaii, Waikiki.

I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for.

Inherited hatred (i.e. hatred your parents schooled you in) is not only stupid, it is destructive - why make your only driving force hate? Seems really f***ing dumb to me.

Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.

Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to the reason the patient deserved this.

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.