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.
“Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed.”
“Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.”