First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.
With 'Iowa,' if you ask me, we really passed up a lot of things that we could have done with the two auxiliary drummers. I mean they hardly touched their drums on that album.
It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
I have a perfectionist mentality; I want things to be right. But I've had a little duel over the years with that mentality. Because it can inhibit you.
I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.
I'd like to write songs for other people, see things from a different perspective. I'd like to watch things from the dugout instead of the pitch.
When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.
One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.
If some guy said this to me, I wouldn't listen either, but one-rep max-outs are the dumbest things you can do to yourself.
There are a couple of scenes in David Lynch's 'Dune' that I loved - again, small things but inspired and elegantly done.
What the hell is pilot season? It's an artificial boundary that makes no sense, and it makes you do things under duress.
Things won't get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.
I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.
In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.
And I think that, of course, there is some dysfunction of needing to be liked or noticed or to feel part of things, something going on there for most actors. For some there's not and I think they really struggle with it.
When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.
In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
