I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.

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

Put me up in front of a million people and ask me to speak. I'll flop. But put me behind my drums and I'll always go with it.

Express yourself, put stuff down on tape, and see what lives.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Read good books to improve your life.

I am no bird

Align your voice value with the tone, pace, and pitch of your listeners will help you connect on all levels.

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.

Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did.

If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can't get you there.

I shouldn't tell jokes about my wife. she's attached to a machine that keeps her alive... The refrigerator.