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I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching - it's pretty cool. It's a really a nice contrast to writing.

Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.