I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

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.

Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.

Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.

Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you . . .

Sometimes faggot is the right word. There's a trend in this country to avoid words: "We can't say that one anymore it's offensive."

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

Fast Food Nation was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.

What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy.