It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.

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.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

I learned the hard way that people are quick to judge, will jump at the chance of a cheap ego boost at another's expense.

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.

The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.

You know we're going to control the insurance companies.

We're also confident that gamers are going to love our vision of the future.

I think I'm known as a liberal democrat and Hispanic and a practicing Catholic, but I never really went out of my way specifically to play a president or any kind of leader.

One is always half mad when one is shy of people.

Nick subjected him to a long, judgmental stare. "There's something very wrong with you," he said at last. "I thought you should know.