"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."

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"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."

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"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body."

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"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."

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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

"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."

Time

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

Play

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

Love

"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."

Mom

"My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music."

Mom

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

Jazz

"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