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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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"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."
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"Sunday school don't make you cool forever."
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"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."
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"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."
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"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."
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"I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom."
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"I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble."
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"I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school."
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"No, the czar did not want us in the schools."
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"I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble."
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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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"But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can."
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"We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks."
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"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."
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"And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach."
Music

"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."
Jazz

"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."
Trying

"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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"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 a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good."
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