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I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.

I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.

I am just a guy who plays drums.

I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

Perfect pitch is genetic. It's 100% genetic.

Don't get too caught up in the typical ideas of what makes a good drummer. Those things are sort of unattainable, and they're not always creatively your most useful things to know.

Drums usually seem to tune themselves.

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

Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.