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I always wanted to be in a band with a bunch of dudes who loved Green Day and all that.

I got into the soul music, but I wanted to rock. I was a rocker.

When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.

I was a Green Day guy because the first DVD I bought was Green Day's 'Bullet In A Bible,' the live album. That really empowered me to be not just a drummer but a performer. It's a really crucial part of why I wanted to be in a band.

Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

I made the big turnaround in the early Nineties when I started hearing all the tenth generation punk bands like Green Day and Offspring and all those people. It just made me fall in love with punk again and remember my roots, and since that time I've always wanted to do more of that kind of music again.

I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again.

Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.

I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy.