I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.

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.

I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.

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.

I feel like in order to challenge yourself you have to get out of and do things that feel wrong at first and find new things. It's important to look for those things.

I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.

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.