In answer to the question,"How did you get that tattoo?": "At a carnival once, I knocked down some milkbottles at a stall." ~Jimmy

"I actually wanted to be a lumberjack." ~Jimmy (on if he wanted to play drums since he was a little boy)

"Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny." ~Jimmy

"We've always been about originality. We don't want to be a parody of ourselves. I'm thirty-one now, and I don't see myself playing 'Jellybelly' at forty." ~Jimmy

James: "Tell us something about Chicago, or your home town, Joliet."
Jimmy: "Um, my hometown Joliet is pretty much a crime-ridden wasteland, full of, uh, people who will stab you in the back at any opportunity. And those that, um … Now that the band's become popular, a lot of the people that used to beat me up as a kid, all of a sudden they're my friends. [laughs] As far as Chicago goes, um, I think it's a very blue-collar town. I think it's … it's full of a lot of, uh … beer drinkin', 9 to 5 workin', wife beatin' chauvinistic pigs."

James: "Any advice to up-and-coming drummers, musicians?"
Jimmy: "Stay away from the deli tray."

James: "What do you think your drums sound like?"
Jimmy: "Besides … Besides for, like, full rich warm tones, I like them to sound like a small boar-sized drill going through your skull."

James: "Name some of your formative groups."

Jimmy: "I was in a band called the Sushi Cowboys. Uh, Stadium Drive, uh, Eddie Carosa's Polka Party, J. P. and the Cats, Mojo Blues Band...and the Skittles."