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" All he wants to do is practice and that's all he does, all day long. That's what it takes if you want to change the face of music. You've gotta be committed to it. "
Practice
Change
Day
" At first it was a bit daunting, but once I started to do it, the more I got into it, the more I started enjoying it and being able to say things lyrically that I would normally have to say musically. "
More
First
Started
" But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me. "
Now
Back
Family
" Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now. "
Different
Now
Rock
" I can't take days off and play like I did last night. Maybe some people can, but I can't. "
Play
Night
Last
" I feel really good in the teacher role. "
Role
I Feel
Teacher
" If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me. "
Run
You
Want
" If you put the right things out there the right things will happen. "
Things
Happen
Out
" I left the Pumpkins in 2010, and I just took a year off to hang with my family and be with my daughter and my son and my wife, and just get acclimatised to being off the road. Then I started looking at what was going to be the next part of my career/legacy, whatever you want to call it. "
Road
Wife
Son
" I take my craft very seriously. "
Very
Take
Seriously
" I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band. "
Way
Think
Play
" I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway. "
Seen
Lyrical
Always
" Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it. "
Music
Only
Always
" Music is my life. It is sacred. "
My Life
Sacred
Music
" My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it. "
Relationship
Brother
Play
" My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old. "
Always
Road
Never
" No one writes about the emotional things you go through. "
Through
You
Things
" Part of the reason that I left the Pumpkins is because it was becoming all-consuming. Being the only member of that band who had two kids and a wife, it was a hard decision, but ultimately it was a decision I'm comfortable with. "
Comfortable
Wife
Hard
" People just expect you to show up, be a cartoon character of yourself, take your money and go home. But don't screw up to the point where you're gonna be out of the picture. "
Home
Yourself
People
" The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn't what we were about on an organic level. "
Quick
Boring
Writing
" The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing. "
Song
Terms
Try
" Today's consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That's something the music industry needs to get its head around. Do we even need record companies any more? "
Music
More
Things
" U2 are a great band; they've given us an unbelievable body of work, and all of us musicians owe them at least something. I can honestly say that every time I have played the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, as soon as my drums are set up, I go into the beat of 'Sunday Bloody Sunday.' "
Work
Red
Time
" What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff. "
End
Want
Money
" When I'm at home I practice everyday. "
Home
Everyday
Practice
" You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect. "
Start
Respect
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