I sit around for ages waiting for inspiration. Then when I get an idea, I want to go with it and get something as quickly as possible. It's like catching a fly in a bottle. I'll play with drums for a bit, then the piano for a bit, play the guitar.
My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.
I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.
Hares are not caught with drums.
If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
I play the ukulele. I have a great group of friends, and we do things like have battles of the bands - me sometimes on ukulele, but mostly on drums.
Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!
I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now. That stuff was heavy.
I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.
My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.
I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.
At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these drums... ' They were Indian drums. And I was saying, 'But that guitar. That guitar. Girls are going to like that guitar.'
Egyptian drumming happens to be a favorite of mine. It's a really simple instrument, but it's really difficult to play. You can take it anywhere with you - you can play it in your room, in an airport. It's very quiet, so you explore the quiet side.
I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Re...
Musicians play music because you love... I loved to play drums since I was five. It's all I ever wanted to do. Rock stars, or as we call them, posers, guys who want to just look great, dress great. They're not musicians; they're looking for the fame.
All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that.
The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.
As you know, I played a little trumpet with Elvis. I overdub a few drum licks here and there on a session, but I'm not a drummer by any means.
I mean, when it gets down to it I just wanted to play the drums. The rest of it never meant that much to me.
I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.
