It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.
I think putting your relationship out there for people to interpret and have their own opinion about, I think it's crazy.
A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.
Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.
We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened.
My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.
I juice a lot; I get as much protein as I can, because being a vegan, there isn't much protein. But that's pretty much it. I just drink lots of water, too. I'll have a protein shake as well every morning.
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.
I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.
I run every day now. I never ran before.
We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.
Usually, if I'm coming to Europe, I'm on a boat for seven days, so I spend the seven days doing a bunch of things. I'll do cardio for an hour or an hour-and-a-half and weights, just light weights.
I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.
On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy.
We never worry about the big things, just the small things.
We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.
My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.
In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.
In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.
