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"Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books."
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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."

"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."

"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."

"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."

"Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise."
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"All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding."


"I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good."


"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."
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