Jimmy Chamberlin

“After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found myself writing all these songs, just taking advantage of the relaxed situation. I wrote about 30 songs in about 30 days.”

“I've learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it's not, really. It's pretending that it's a band.”

“The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.”

“My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.”

“It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.”

“Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.”

“Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.”

“People just expect you to show up, be a cartoon character of yourself, take your money and go home. But don't screw up to the point where you're gonna be out of the picture.”

“At first it was a bit daunting, but once I started to do it, the more I got into it, the more I started enjoying it and being able to say things lyrically that I would normally have to say musically.”

“The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn't what we were about on an organic level.”

“U2 are a great band; they've given us an unbelievable body of work, and all of us musicians owe them at least something. I can honestly say that every time I have played the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, as soon as my drums are set up, I go into the beat of 'Sunday Bloody Sunday.'”

“Legacy above finances; artistry above fame.”

“I feel really good in the teacher role.”