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

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

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

" 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 passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band. "

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

" 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 looked Death right in the face. "

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

" Playing my drums is therapy. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "