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

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 always hugs you in private, but failure slaps you in the public...

She was home, the passage walls, memorabilia of Ben's life, past and present, welcomed her like a doting grandmother.

What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

I've always been a fan and supporter of Prince. That's one of my inspirations.

I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl.