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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.

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I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.
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I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.
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In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.
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I was in a band called Hooker for a while.
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And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.
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I practice every day, I warm up before I play.
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I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.
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Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.
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I've always liked Dennis Chambers, he's real flashy.
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Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.
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On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy.
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And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
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We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.
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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.
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In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
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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.
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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.
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My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school.
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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.
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We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.
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A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.
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We never worry about the big things, just the small things.
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My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.
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All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.
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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.
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Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years.
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I looked Death right in the face.
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I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.
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I run every day now. I never ran before.
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I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.
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I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.
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I wanted to say thanks... and share my gratitude for everything I've been blessed with. Family, friends, and continued support from everyone.
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I'm obsessed with my children.
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I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.
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If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.
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In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.
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It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.
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My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.
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