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Even on the drum level, it's all about stating your theme, going back to certain things that need to be emphasized, not doing fills for the sake of doing fills.
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Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.
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I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand.
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But I've gravitated more towards the drum set.
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My Web site, everything I write in there is from me.
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I don't fight people for fun.
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Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.
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I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.
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I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.
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I love collaborating.
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Sometimes it's about less is more. It's about the seed. Thinking about this gigantic tree that you think is so beautiful but it started with this just seed.
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When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.
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When Wes came back to Limp Bizkit, we really wanted to do something different. We wanted to make a core record that we didn't care who liked or who disliked.
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When you say something is very different to a core base that expects heavy music from you or very aggressive music, everybody tends to go, 'Oh, they're gonna get mellow, they're gonna get soft.'
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I'm a romantic guy.
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I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.
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For someone in my position, there's opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you shouldn't be eligible, and I think that's left a bad taste in a lots of financers' and studios' mouths. Just cause someone's popular at one thing, letting them do the other isn't always the right thing.
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Prague is a dark place.
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And touring is difficult when everybody's heads aren't in the same place.
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There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.
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I've always wanted to make movies.
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I love finding EPs for bands that you just discover.
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I'm a sentimental guy.
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Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.