I was drawn to it much to my father's dismay. He wanted me to be a pianist like he was, but I had coarser tastes - like that old joke: What do you call a guy who hangs around with musicians? A drummer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.
So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.
My dad played a little bit of piano and guitar, but not that professionally. I saw him play, and I said, 'I want to play. I want to try this instrument.'
I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.
My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.
A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I could go on this trip with these people. The drums found me; I didn't find them. When I started playing, I realized how appropriate an instrument it was for me.
My dad is my biggest influence on me as a musician, even though he's not a musician.
I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.
A drummer is usually like the backbone.
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.