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I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.

It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

Creating sounds together with other musicians is something I've always liked doing.

Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.

I like guitar sounds to be a little somber.

For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.