Once I became a cop and it's like when I got back into drumming; if I focus on something I become that, so I became a cop.

It works for me, the way I play drums and the things I do but I also would like to know proper technique. Mainly for health - to last longer, be able to play longer.

I am self taught. My dad threw me in with a drum set at the age of four and I figured it out!

I watch YouTube and other peers of mine. There's a lot of things I can't do and also I'm very unorthodox, I want to work on my mechanics and technique.

I immersed myself in the police work and I guess drumming wasn't even a hobby, just something my body naturally wanted to do, tapping stuff.

Playing drums or music, being a musician, is inside of you. So you would always see me tapping on something, playing on tables... I never felt the need to pull out drums.

I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.

Even though sometimes you feel like you're hand cuffed you're really not because it really takes skill to play the music properly.

As a drummer my job is to reproduce what made the people bop their heads when they first heard the album on the radio, or when they watched the music video.

My dad taught me not to overplay, to think about my parts when I play, even in a live situation.

I shined off high school band, marching, jazz studies. At the time I was too cool for school, I had this professional gig and I was going home taking a shower and heading to downtown Hawaii, Waikiki.

Let your heart sing from those wounded places.When you sing your song with everything you've got, it will not only heal you, but it will heal all of us through you.

500. There are paradoxes. If there were no night, we would be deprived of themagnificent image of a starry sky. Thus light deprives us of "vision, " anddarkness helps us "see.

An angel is an empty comic book thought bubble. The content has to be filled in by the viewer.

Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.

So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.

Writing is an antisocial act.

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.

Oh, my bad ... I'm sorry for bothering you. I forgot I only exist when you need me for something.