I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

There's natural mentoring that goes on in my life every day.

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

I wear American Apparel jeans every day of my life.

I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.