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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. "

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" Playing my drums is therapy. "

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

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

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

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy. "

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

" 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'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. "

" We never worry about the big things, just the small things. "

" I looked Death right in the face. "

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

" 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. "

" The whole time after you record an album, you're just waiting for the release date. You're waiting for fans to hear it and stuff. "

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

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

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

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