Ex-Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison on overcoming recent health issues

Drumtalk, the video podcast by German drummer and videographer Philipp Koch, conducted an interview with former Slipknot and current Vimic/Sinsaenum and drummer Joey Jordison. A few excerpts follow.
On what he loves most about drumming:
Joey: “The simplest beats, on what rock music or any music has been formed on, can be the toughest beats to execute and perform, because it’s really easy to not respect a simple 4/4 beat because people always want to play fast. Sometimes, a lot of drummers will try and rush into the technicality of, if it isn’t fast, or I’m not faster than that guy, then I’m not a good drummer. My advice always is to start very simple and master your timing and master the most simple beats that you can and you just keep elevating from that. Trying to go right into playing fast is not necessarily the best way to go about it, because if you don’t have your foundation locked in, it’s hard to progress. It’s very hard to go back. I know a lot of drummers that just went into speed and they have a very hard time locking into a really simple groove. It’s really weird, so I’d say start from the ground up at the basics and move forward from there. That’s the way I did it. It worked for me.”
On the current state of his health after overcoming the neurological condition acute transverse myelitis, an inflammation of the spinal cord which damages nerve fibers, which ultimately led to Jordison losing the use of his legs:
Joey: “With me, I would never lose my sight of music. Music is actually really what got me through a lot of it because there’s no way this thing is going to beat me. There’s no way I’m not going back out on tour. There’s no way I’m not going to play drums; it’s not going to happen. I’d ask the doctors and stuff like that: ‘Will I be able to walk again and play and drums?’ Honestly, the doctors would look at me and they wouldn’t be able to tell me. And, from that moment, I knew that I was going to beat it and I wasn’t going to let anything stop me.”