Andrew R. Mares

“My number-one thing with other drummers is I want them to enjoy themselves. Dude, you’re a drummer—you’re the coolest one in the fucking band. Act like you love being there and give me a reason to watch you.”
― Travis Barker, Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums

“If it should be revealed or demonstrated that there is no future state, my advice to every man, woman, and child would be … to take opium.”48”
― Joseph J. Ellis, First Family: Abigail and John Adams

“Complex and original people know that truth is rarely simple, almost never all of this or all of that, but elusive minglings and mixtures, evolving shapes, with tinctures of irony and paradox.”
― Robert Morgan, Boone: A Biography

“Parents owed their children admonition and discipline, not expressive sentiment.”
― Fred Kaplan, John Quincy Adams: American Visionary