For me, the hardest part is taking lessons, and it's hard teaching an old dog new tricks, so part of my re-teaching myself is opening my mind too. I …

- Eric Hernandez

As a drummer my job is to reproduce what made the people bop their heads when they first heard the album on the radio, or when they watched the music…

- Eric Hernandez

Even though sometimes you feel like you're hand cuffed you're really not because it really takes skill to play the music properly.

- Eric Hernandez

As a musician, we should always want to strive to be better, we can always make improvements. It's easy to get comfortable and it's easy to find your…

- Eric Hernandez

I am self taught. My dad threw me in with a drum set at the age of four and I figured it out!

- Eric Hernandez

Once I became a cop. I dived into that career. I never wanted to be an LAPD officer because I thought 'LA is super dangerous, not the place I'd want …

- Eric Hernandez

I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.

- Eric Hernandez

I was living in different accommodation and it was never in a place where I could set up my drums and play, so my drums would end up back in their ca…

- Eric Hernandez

Once I grew up and realised 'What am I doing?' I started re-listening to the music I was playing and I realised there was so much finesse - it was dy…

- Eric Hernandez