“Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.”

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.

The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.

There’s something about heartbreak that makes for great music, but the same could be said for Jägermeister. Hangovers make for great music, too.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.

At school where you a dunce or a teacher’s pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.

Nothing’s going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I’d still love to make music.

When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn’t last forever.

There’s nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.

Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!

I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.

I think I’m scared a lot. I’m scared of almost everything. And I’m constantly trying to work my way through each obstacle, whether it’s a present, past, or future relationship.

As I get older… I start to realize that life ain’t half bad. Each year, I’m amazed that I’m still alive. I don’t take any of this for granted, I’m a lucky dude.

I think that if you’re passionate about something and you’re driven and you’re focused, then you can pretty much do anything that you want to do in life.

It’s funny, there aren’t too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There’s a few – the really brilliant ones.

That which is good for all and any one, For whomsoever- that is good for me. . . What I hold good for self, I should for all. Only Law Universal is true law.

What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.

I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.

Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.

Nothing is ever too good to be true.

If you do good in secret, Allah will shower His good on you in public.

Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

It’s just unreal, I’m shocked myself. I’ve played good matches here, but never really almost destroyed somebody.