“Carmine Appice has played with Rod Stewart, Pink Floyd, so many bands. So studying with Carmine, it just changed my drumming life. But he taught me some valuable lessons that were so important to me. One was, if you’re playing because you want to get...
“He and I go to see the Beatles perform and I said, ‘What’s that guitar John Lennon’s playing?’ He said, ‘I think it’s a Rickenbacker,’ I said, off the top of my head, ‘Why don’t we go to the manager of the...
“Don’t tell me you want to be a writer….Just sit down and start writing….but if you’re going to write, you have to want to write. You can’t think that I’m going to be writing the great American novel. I’m going to write...
“There’s the kind of note that you get from somebody that’s paying you, and there’s the kind of notes that you’re getting somebody that’s not paying you. So the ones that are not paying you, you listen to. If you get the note from...
“Harry Dean Stanton… he lived on Mulholland Drive. His neighbors were Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando. He and Marlon Brando became very close friends. Everybody knew about Harry Dean’s philosophy of, there is no individual… we’re all...