Quotes By 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.

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

I wanted to say thanks... and share my gratitude for everything I've been blessed with. Family, friends, and continued support from everyone.

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

I've always liked Dennis Chambers, he's real flashy.

I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.

On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy.

My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive. I'm just grateful to be here at all.

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

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.

The whole time after you record an album, you're just waiting for the release date. You're waiting for fans to hear it and stuff.

I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.

I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.

I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.

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.

I run every day now. I never ran before.

I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.

I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I'm just going to fly them out and let them hang. It's all good.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.

We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened.

It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.

I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them.

We never worry about the big things, just the small things.

But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.

I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.