Innocence Gave Me Confidence To Go Up

Stamina Is The Force That Drives The Drumming; It's Not Really A Sprint.

Lotus-land As It Appears In 'free Will' Is Simply A Metaphor For An Idealized Background, A 'land Of Milk And Honey.' It Is Sometimes Also Used As A Pejorative Name For Los Angeles, Though That Was Not In My Mind When I Wrote It.

I Don't Like Lyrics That Are Just Thrown Together, That Were Obviously Written As You Went Along, Or The Song Was Already Written And The Guy Made Up The Lyrics In Five Minutes.

If The Future's Looking Dark, We're The Ones Who Have To Shine. If There's No One In Control, We're The Ones Who Draw The Line. Though We Live In Trying Times, We're The Ones Who Have To Try. And We Know That Time Has Wings, So We're The Ones Who Have To Fly.

For Me, Drum Elements Are Like Hieroglyphics - I Think Of A Certain Physical Figure, And A Little Three-dimensional Glyph Will Appear In My Mind As I'm Playing.