I really enjoyed playing that Blind stuff because it's a little more mathy and metal and as far as drumming goes, it's a bit more fun.

I can't think of a more natural experience in my entire life than playing with Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman again. I really learned how to play with them in terms of drumming.

The Blind album itself was more drum and rhythm-centric and I really enjoyed that.

Dave Grohl have said a lot of really nice things about me that I don't know I deserve but it's nice of him regardless.

I still play the same kit that I used on the very first album. It's an old Tama Superstar that I bought in 1983.

I've known Woody Weatherman since fifth grade and I'm 46 so that's a long time man.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.

If we do not suffer a loss all the way to the end, it will wait for us. It won’t just dissipate and disappear. Rather, it will fester, and we will experience its sorrow later, in stranger forms.

A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.

I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.

You have to do more than you get paid for because that’s where the fortune is.

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency.

When I started at 9, I was working with plaster. I worked with a florist. It was a little illegal for kids to work. They would give you tips because they couldn't really give you wages.