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"I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record."

"Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?"
Jazz,

"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."
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"In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it."


"I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their 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."


"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 was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit."


"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."


"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."
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