Playing Along With Records Is Key. And

I Feel Like In Order To Challenge Yourself You Have To Get Out Of And Do Things That Feel Wrong At First And Find New Things. It's Important To Look For Those Things.

People Who Come Up To Me Are Drummers Or Fans Of The Band. I Don't Get It Too Much, But I'll Be Somewhere And Someone Will Have Me Take A Picture Or Something.

I Had Sort Of Exhausted All The Avenues Playing In Detroit. So Again, Through The Stewardship Of My Brother, I Ended Up In California And Went To The Musicians Institute In L.a. I Wanted To Get Better As A Player.

I Was In Every Band Class I Could Get In, Like After School Jazz Band And Marching Band, And That's Where I Really Learned To Read Music From Elementary All The Way Through Junior High And High School.

There's Something About The Rawness Of The Live Thing, There's No Rhythm Guitars Behind The Solo, Nothing Other Than What You Hear The People Playing At That Moment. It's Exciting, It's About The Performance.