Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.

I do play drums when I'm on tour.

To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.

If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.