I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go.

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.

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together

Mothers are irreplaceable treasure, you can always have a step-mother but never in life can you ever have another mother”.

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.

Pain or damage don't end the world.

I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity.

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.

A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.