Quotes By Travis Barker
If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.
Travis Barker
In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
Travis Barker
In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.
Travis Barker
In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.
Travis Barker
On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy.
Travis Barker
I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.
Travis Barker
I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.
Travis Barker
I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.
Travis Barker
We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.
Travis Barker
Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.
Travis Barker
I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.
Travis Barker
We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.
Travis Barker
All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.
Travis Barker
I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.
Travis Barker