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.
“I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.”
“Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.”