I`m a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you`d tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.
I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn`t going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn`t going to happen.