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

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.

I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.

Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.

Christ came down to save us from a terrible hell, and any man who is cast down to hell from here must go in the full blaze of the gospel, and over the mangled body of the Son of God.

Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.

I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.

If you do things the same way you've always done them, you'll get the same outcomes you've always gotten. In order to change your outcomes, you've got to do things differently.

Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness.