“Jazz drummers traditionally are not always prepared to just hold down ...” — Steven Wilson Quote

Jazz drummers traditionally are not always prepared to just hold down the beat; it's like they're soloing the whole time.

When I was growing up, I was always looking for the most willfully uncommercial music: Whether it was Captain Beefheart or Frank Zappa or King Crimson, that's what attracted me.

I've always wanted to make some kind of music that was universally appreciated.

The one thing I do believe is, if you make the songs about the human aspects of things, you've got a much better chance of having the music transcend the times. If you make them very political and very topical, it's going to date very quickly.

I try to make my heart beat out of my chest, hard-core, once a day for at least a half hour. I think that's very important.

I had an older brother that would beat me in everything, and then he would rub my nose in it, and that made me work even harder.

Ever since I was a little kid, I've felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a three-piece Pierre Cardin suit. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually I realized I was going to be the kid who got beat up in school, but I kept wearing it.

I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.