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Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.

When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized that what they really represented was, they'd come from this age of shared music.

I played in ska bands and like all kinds of music.

I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

I was reared on folk music.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

At a earlier age, I was kind of into a pretty large scope or range of music from Hieroglyphics and the Hobo Junction guys and all that to like a lot of stuff that was in New York like Diamond D, Nas, Brand Nubian, of course Biggie, OC, Organized Confusion, Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Digable Planets, who I just saw recently, and they killed it.

My parents were part of a crowd that was attached to all the different navies stationed in Malta. When they would have parties in each other's houses, I would get taken along, and that's where I heard all this great music. I didn't distinguish particular styles; it was all music to me.