'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.

The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.

As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.

In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.

I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.

If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't know why. It's a little sick and demented.