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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.

Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.

My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.

As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.

I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.

Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.

I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.

Outside of a couple of times I ran without eating right or being too tired, I always feel great after I run.

All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.

I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.

We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.

I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.

In a world that is so caught up in evil things, anything that is positive and beautiful should be shared by all.

Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.

Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.

When Hillel died, it was during one of the happiest times of my life. I was married and completely in love and had a baby on the way.

I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.

A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.

Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.

I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school.

We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.

I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.

I always thought I was a pretty terrible actor.

Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

I'm always put in the unfortunate position of asking people to donate money and people I know in bands to play benefit concerts and all this stuff.

I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school.

When something comes up, and it's interesting, and I have the time, I'll do it.

If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.

I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.

I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.

Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it.

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.

Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.