First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I’m other things…. But I didn’t play drums to make money. I played drums because I loved them, my soul is that of a drummer. It came to where I had to make a decision — I was going to be a drummer. Everything else goes now. I play drums. It was a conscious moment in my life when I said the rest of things were getting in the way. I didn’t do it to be come rich and famous, I did it because it was the love of my life.

Happy birthday, great man!