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

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" I hate planes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong. "

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

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

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" I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit. "

" I looked Death right in the face. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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