I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle.

You always go in with the intention of playing your best and knowing the material you're auditioning.

I have known people throughout my years of playing where maybe they had a gig, but then lost the gig because they didn't really move forward with them.

I'm the drummer that kind of plays more on top of the beat.

But being energetic in my playing is something I've always thought was the right thing to do. Like I'm never forcing it, like "My God, I've gotta play so hard tonight!"

Papa Roach are not just going to take tours just to take tours.

When a label is throwing money at you, you have to recoup it.

We're striving to stay in the arenas. We [Papa Roach] had just little things that just took our show a step up and were so stoked for that.

It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.

The world is waiting to hear an authentic voice, a voice from God- not an echo of what others are doing and saying, but an authentic voice.

The mind of the spirit will guide you in perfect ways, even in the minute details of your life, if you will let it do so.

We are blood-secured, delivered from the enemy’s power, and raised up into newness of life in God.

The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.

I am brave, though I am alone.

If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

The best actors in the world are the actors who don't keep the walls up all the time and allow themselves the potential to be embarrassed.

You cannot do something just for the money. You have to do things you believe in and eventually you will make money.