I looked Death right in the face.

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

Put me up in front of a million people and ask me to speak. I'll flop. But put me behind my drums and I'll always go with it.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.

I try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I'll do 30 to 45 minutes on show days. That's the first thing I do when I wake up, I have breakfast and then I'll hit the gym.

There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.