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"Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me."

"I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch."

"Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple."

"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."
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"I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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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