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" 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. "

" A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing. "

" And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school. "

" And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach. "

" Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too. "

" But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can. "

" But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song. "

" 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. "

" I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation. "

" If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us. "

" I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go. "

" I hate planes. "

" I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them. "

" I juice a lot; I get as much protein as I can, because being a vegan, there isn't much protein. But that's pretty much it. I just drink lots of water, too. I'll have a protein shake as well every morning. "

" 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. "

" I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything. "

" 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 looked Death right in the face. "

" I love tour, but I don't like traveling at night or driving long hours. But I love touring. If my kids could be out there full time, I'd probably never go home. "

" 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'm obsessed with my children. "

" 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. "

" In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally. "

" I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet. "

" In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it. "

" In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day. "

" I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit. "

" I practice every day, I warm up before I play. "

" I run every day now. I never ran before. "

" I think putting your relationship out there for people to interpret and have their own opinion about, I think it's crazy. "

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