I'm obsessed with my children.

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.

I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go.

I practice every day, I warm up before I play.

My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive. I'm just grateful to be here at all.

In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.

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.

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.

I looked Death right in the face.

I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

Playing my drums is therapy.

I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.

I wanted to say thanks... and share my gratitude for everything I've been blessed with. Family, friends, and continued support from everyone.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.

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.

I am who I am by choice. Society rejects me because I'm different; I reject society because they're all the same.

Dreams don’t work unless you do.

Once in a while, I'll slip and get off my vegan diet and have egg whites in the morning, that's a good source of protein while I'm out on the road. If I can feel my body starting to tire, those are good to keep you healthy.

You are what you choose to become. Be who they say you cannot be.

Dreams don't work unless you do.

For anybody who loves what they do, mediocrity is not enough. You don’t have to be the best in the world, but you should be the best that you can be.

There is nothing wrong with looking one way while the world looks another. Imagine if this whole time, we’ve been looking at it wrong.

When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging out with different types of people who listened to so many different types of music. I never wanted to be part of any one clique. I loved it all.

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.

Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

Don't let people change who you are just be who you are with someone else.

You will always fine jealous people.They're the ones promoting you.

Are You Living or Just Existing?" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

I'm just enjoying my life.I suggest you try it.

People always try to do the right thing..after they've tried everything else.

You can't build your life around hurts from the past" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

You can,t make yourself happy by causing other peoples misery -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

While the most dangerous person in the world is a person with nothing to lose, the most powerful person in the world is a person with nothing to prove.

Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.

People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.

What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.

I got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that..

God will prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies so let them watch you eat.

I thank God for Closed Doors

You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.

We didn't have much, but we had love.

Don't try to be seen, God may be hiding you on purpose.

Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

If you lie to yourself you will lie to God too.