I love to dance. I have always been the first on the dance floor, but I'm not teachable. I couldn't learn 'five, six, seven, eight' if my life depended on it.
I am a disco king.
So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.
If we don't put some acting in a dance song, no one would be able to dance on it.
When I do listen to music a lot of times I listen to old school music, I'm talking about Earth, Wind & Fire, I'm talking about the Isley Brothers, the O'Jays. It just eases my mind.
I love music. I love going out dancing.
I grew up on R&B and soul, so that backbone is always there.
The great thing about both Indian and Western pop music is that they're fast and have a beat.
I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.
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 drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.
I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.
Disco is just jitterbug.
I don't want to be a lead player. I don't want to shred and play fast licks. I just want to be the best rhythm section ever.
I'm an excellent dancer. I keep up with whatever's hot. I've been break-dancing and pop-locking since back in the day.
I've always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even - dare I say it - disco.
I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes all that energy to the mainstream.
People don't want to see 17 pieces in neckties. They wanna see some jeans, some gettin' down, and some wigglin'.
I've played the drums for so long, I can't imagine saying goodbye to it.
I create my music so you can go to the club and have fun.
The simplest beats, on what rock music or any music has been formed on, can be the toughest beats to execute and perform, because it's really easy to not respect a simple 4/4 beat, because people always want to play fast.
Playing drums is how I communicate. It's how I speak to people. That's my God-given gift.
Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.
Having my son on drums has made a huge difference. I can't stress this strongly enough, in terms of the groove space and style that Joachim gave me to instinctively play what I felt in a more free way, rather than feeling constricted. That's true on record and on stage.
I always want to make people dance so there'll always be an element of dance in my music.
Peter Parker can't dance. He can flip and climb up walls and do backflips, but he definitely can't dance.
