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I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.

I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

When I started out, even though you had your rhythm section, they were big horn sections, strings, live people laying on every part of the floor in the studio waiting for their chance to get on that one little track.

I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.

I'd never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up, and the nerves of, 'You're on stage tonight.'

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

Playing my drums is therapy.

I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.