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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. "

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" Playing my drums is therapy. "

" My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music. "

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

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

" I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good. "

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

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

" I was in a band called Hooker for a while. "

" We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books. "

" I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways. "

" 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. "

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

" I try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I'll do 30 to 45 minutes on show days. That's the first thing I do when I wake up, I have breakfast and then I'll hit the gym. "

" 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. "

" My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive. I'm just grateful to be here at all. "

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

" 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 want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself. "

" We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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