I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else..

I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats..

I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time..

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort ….

Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that..

Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick….

Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play ….

Cardiff Stadium was a warm up for the 3 Hyde Park shows. James Brown opened. And I think it may be the only time we played Mini Epic live..

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'wha….

Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surf….

The Meatbats are a throwback band..

Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs..

I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it..

I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somew….

Music doesn't solve your problems..but allows you to dance all over them.

There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing….

I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the….

The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the story as the narrative itself does..

In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much..

I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playin….

I feel like in order to challenge yourself you have to get out of and do things that feel wrong at first and find new things. It's important to look ….