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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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 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. "

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

" 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've always liked Dennis Chambers, he's real flashy. "

" We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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 looked Death right in the face. "

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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