"Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books."

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"Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books."

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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."

Learning

"But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song."

Time

"We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics."

Music

"All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding."

Body

"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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"But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can."

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"I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit."

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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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"And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school."

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