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Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer."
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Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.
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Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.
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Living in the limelight: the universal dream for those who wish to SEEM. Those who wish to BE, must put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination, the real relation, the underlying theme.
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Standing in front of a microphone where every word or every slip that you make, especially in these times, is with you forever - you want to say the right thing. I fell into having to extemporize, and it came okay because of tools I've learned. I said [to myself], "Remember [to mention] mom and dad."
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You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.
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I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.
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While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.
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If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.
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I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.
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I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs are quite different from those which he exemplified.