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“I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.”
“Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years.”
“I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.”
“Usually, if I'm coming to Europe, I'm on a boat for seven days, so I spend the seven days doing a bunch of things. I'll do cardio for an hour or an hour-and-a-half and weights, just light weights.”
“I wanted to say thanks... and share my gratitude for everything I've been blessed with. Family, friends, and continued support from everyone.”
“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.”
“My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.”
“We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened.”
“Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.”
“My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school.”
“Once in a while, I'll slip and get off my vegan diet and have egg whites in the morning, that's a good source of protein while I'm out on the road. If I can feel my body starting to tire, those are good to keep you healthy.”
“I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.”
“All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.”
“But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.”
“We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.”
“I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.”
“On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy.”
“When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging out with different types of people who listened to so many different types of music. I never wanted to be part of any one clique. I loved it all.”
“I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.”
“I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them.”