What's the last thing a drummer says in a band? 'Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?'

I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing's changed, really.

I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco.

When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.

Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles

It was supposed to be gross, and now it's gorgeous.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?