In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.

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.

We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it

If the wealth you've accumulated is in the form of friends, family and books, then you're doing life right.

And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect

We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions...

It's just cool to me that Bon Jovi knows my name!

How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.

It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at all.