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

There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.

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

I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

The Meatbats are a throwback band.

Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.