skulduggery pleasant is the best book I've ever read and has enspired myself to become an author.
Most of it was nuts, but I was determined to be a drummer as soon as I left school.
Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.
There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before.
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 dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.
Mistreating your drum set is just one step below child abuse
Contact lenses are for vain, weak-willed piglets who swan around showing off: 'Look everybody, I can see without spectacles. No one at first glance will ever assume I know how to surf the net. '
An ordinary visit to a beautiful garden always creates an extraordinary time!
The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.
Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.