What made you jump from 30 Seconds to Mars to Angels and Airwaves?
It's funny because it wasn't actually a "jump" from one band to the other. I quit 30 Seconds to Mars last year with really no plan. I thought it was time for a change, so I quit the band and really I had no idea what I was gonna do. It was scary. I was like, "Shoot. I'm gonna work at Home Depot." I really didn't know. All the contacts you think you had all of the sudden aren’t really there anymore. Tom was one of the people I still kept in contact with on a pretty regular basis, so he called me up one night and he was like, "What are you doing?" And my calendar's pretty wide open. So he said, "We need a bass player." Well, I needed to do something. I needed a job. It ended up being much more than a job. It was definitely a life-changing move.

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