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“I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.”
“I practice every day, I warm up before I play.”
“I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.”
“Playing my drums is therapy.”
“I run every day now. I never ran before.”
“I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I'm just going to fly them out and let them hang. It's all good.”
“We never worry about the big things, just the small things.”
“And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.”
“I was in a band called Hooker for a while.”
“We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.”
“I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.”
“In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.”
“My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.”
“There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.”
“I think putting your relationship out there for people to interpret and have their own opinion about, I think it's crazy.”
“We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.”
“And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.”
“Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.”
“Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.”
“In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.”