Drums

“would just check them off one by one. Oh, you're not going to run again. Oh, you're not going to play the drums again. Oh, you're not. You're not going to do this again. And the one that I gave myself, the restriction I gave myself is I'd never fly again, you know? And I broke it and I fly again.”

“That's what I do now. And it's like, go. Where I would just train every day, play drums four hours a day, run two hours a day. By the time I got ready, you know, to where I was going, I'm like, I'm so ready for tour. It's like, whatever, whatever life throws at me, I'm good.”

“Like, yo, if you want to go skateboarding, you want to go ride BMX bikes, go whatever, fuck off with your friends, you got to go play drums for three hours. Wow. I'm so thankful they did that. Can you imagine if they didn't, you know? Because the one thing also in my doc is like, every time like my mom dies, what do I do?”

“literally eat, sleep, and breathe it. Same thing after my accident. What did I do? Day I got home. I'm outside with scabs all over my body and I'm playing the fucking drums because it's like what I know. And also I think for kids even that don't have to hopefully endure anything I encountered.”

“Honestly, after I read his book, I'm like, oh, I'm not alone. There's a bunch of fucking psychopaths like me that just I love the fucking drums. I love to make music. I could stay in the studio for 25 hours, you know? And I don't feel burnt out and it makes me feel alive and it's therapeutic.”

“But that's how I play the drums. And that's going to help me once I go back to what I do and it's functional for what I do. I like that. But when I wasn't doing that and I was just throwing around heavy weights and I was putting on muscle, I got behind a kit and I remember I hadn't really tested it out and it was the worst feeling in the world.”

“Yeah, the fight game is crazy. It's the craziest. I'm happy my drums don't hit me back straight up, you know? I'm like. Yeah. It's also, you can do what you do for a long time.”

“You know, it's like that, I don't know. I came up like lugging my own gear around, setting up my drums, and then waiting for the show to start. And I don't, I can't just watch a movie before I play or wake up from a nap. It's just, it's just not in me.”

“I'll get a call and they'll say, hey, hey, can we come by the studio? I want to make this with you. I want you to play drums on this. I'll see Game walking in my neighborhood, Trav, I need you on this record. Blah, blah, blah. There's so much that happens right there for me.”

“He said, I'd rather you not have a blood thinner in your system if you're playing drums and you cut yourself open, or if you're boxing or light sparring. So, yeah, I mean, knock on wood.”

“The last thing my mom said to me was just play drums. The drums are literally the heartbeat of the musical body. A lot of people came just to watch him. He just had this, oh, you're going to get picked up by a band and you will be a star attraction.”