I Don't Consider That I'm Particularly Influenced

I Never Had Any Lessons. When I First Started Playing I Used To Read Music. I Was Very Interested In Music. But When I Started Playing In Groups I Did A Silly Thing And Dropped It. It's Great If You Can Write Things Down.

I Have No Qualm About The Quality Of The Contemporary Repertory.

I've Always Been Obsessed With Drums. They Fascinate Me. Any Other Instrument - Nothing. I Play Acoustic Guitar A Bit. But It's Always Been Drums First And Foremost. I Don't Reckon On This Jack-of-all-trades Thing. I Thing That Felling Is A Lot More Important Than Technique. It's All Very Well Doing A Triple Paradiddle - But Who's Going To Know You've Done It? If You Play Technically You Sound Like Everybody Else. It's Being Original That Counts.

I Don't Consider That I'm Particularly Influenced By Anyone Or Anything. But When I Started Playing, I Was Influenced By Early Soul. It Was Just That Feel, That Sound.

People Who Don't Take Care Of Their Drums Really Annoy Me.