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I got a phone message from Janet Jackson saying, 'Hi, I love 'Losing My Edge', can you do me something funky and dirty like that?' I can't really do off-the-peg stuff, so I never called back.

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With a computer, you have access to so many drum sounds and samples that your snare drum will be unrelated harmonically to your kick drum.

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I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.

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Even in the band I was in when I was a kid, I'd be telling everyone what to do. I'd be leaning over the drums, telling them to tune their guitars, micromanaging.

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I was into punk rock my whole life. I never listened to the Eagles. I never listened to things that were getting Grammys. So getting a Grammy nomination wasn't bad, it just wasn't meaningful.

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You can't be afraid to embarrass yourself sometimes.

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I'm kind of stunned by hip-hop and R&B's embrace of what is essentially early-to-mid-Nineties Euro pop.

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It's strangely energizing to have people who don't make music themselves take potshots at you from the Internet.

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After being in a 'professional rock ensemble,' there's a great joy in making music with friends, without any release plan.

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I can be staggeringly evangelical. That's just my personality.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: February 4th, 1970

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