In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.

I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.

Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's beautiful.

In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.

People who come up to me are drummers or fans of the band. I don't get it too much, but I'll be somewhere and someone will have me take a picture or something.