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Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.
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I have to be able to stick to very dedicated times to work on things, do exactly as I say I'm going to do, show up when I say I'm going to show up and focus that's the only way I've been able to pull off everything last year but I'm hoping I'll never have to do that again, it's a hell of a lot of work that's for sure.
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I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.
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We're really good friends and we hang out. It's like I get to hang out with my friends and get paid for it.
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I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.
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Vegetables....a waste of good plate space
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I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about.
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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.
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When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.
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I practice every day, I warm up before I play.
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I want to beat the world record for the number of beats per second on a drum pad.
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I feel a certain amount of freedom just cruising to the liquor store to get water or whatever. It just feels good. It makes me feel young getting on the bike and - again, not going crazy, I do bunny-hops and I'll hit some curbs and stuff - but just feeling like a kid again.
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My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.
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I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California, and I think that's what this album ['California']feels like - there's endless hope and optimism but there's also a darker side.
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I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.
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There's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.
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There's a time in your life where you're not quite sure where you are. You think everything's perfect, but it's not perfect... Then one day you wake up and you can't quite picture yourself in the situation you're in. But the secret is, if you can picture yourself doing anything in life, you can do it.
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If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.
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A lot of guys like to fantasize about having sex with 2 girls at the same time... I like to fantasize about having sex with the same girl twice, thank you.
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I've never been a jam-band sort of musician.
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I told myself I would never stop skating. I would never stop riding bikes or riding motorcycles. I raced dirt when I was a kid; motocross. So it definitely keeps me in tune with my youth. I'm almost 40 years old and I feel like I'm 17 years old, and I feel like that's really healthy.
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I don't get boy bands these days. Thye don't write their own songs and everything is choreographed from their dance moves to how they have sex with each other after the show.
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Express yourself, put stuff down on tape, and see what lives.
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The strongest human emotion is probably love. I think it's universal. I think that across language and country and time and everything else, probably love.