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I don't even like doing drum solos live; to me, it's like, 'Ehhh.' It doesn't really interest me.

I feel like I'm 11 again, with my drums. It doesn't matter if it's good or bad. I'm just playing.

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't.

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.

Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

There are no prog elements to Adrenaline Mob; it's very song-oriented, with shredding and grooves.

The most bizarre occurrence has to be when I dislocated my wrist during a show in Germany in 1997.

I kind of always made it a tradition, whenever Dream Theater played Toronto, to play a Rush cover.

I want to be as healthy as I can be so I can make it past 50; make it past 60 and make it past 70.

I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.

My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!

I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them.

I've done every tour with them since then and will always be with them as long as they're together.

I take jobs with people I admire, people with incredible talent who aren't necessarily big sellers.

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.

There's a lot of down time on the road. That part of it I really don't enjoy. There's nothing to do.

Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here.

I never weigh myself. But if I put my trousers on and they don't do up, then I don't eat until I can.

I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.

We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.

The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

You always go in with the intention of playing your best and knowing the material you're auditioning.

I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle.

I think there's a lot of death metal or doom metal dudes that somehow or another find a groove in it.

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.

When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.

I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.

Tommy Dorsey would walk up to you if you had a tuxedo on and make sure you didn't have on white socks.

I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.

Life is like breakfast: you just mix all ingredients 'cause in your stomach it will all come together.

When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it's not fear.

My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.

Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.

For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.

The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

'Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one.

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

In all of my years in this business, I've always been part of either a progressive band or a metal band.

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