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

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

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

" My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 looked Death right in the face. "

" 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 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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