After I quit my band, I definitely was so full, like I'm so full I could never eat again. I had that kind of feeling where the elements, like the touring stuff, were harder for me and I definitely felt fine not experiencing it again.

Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.

I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.

I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.

At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

When my first daughter was born, I had to figure out a new way of [making music] so that I wouldn't wake her up.