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We've been appropriating in art since Duchamp, and we've been appropriating in music since the first person was banging on drums.

My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

I mean, when it gets down to it I just wanted to play the drums. The rest of it never meant that much to me.

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

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

Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music.

Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.

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