Quotes By Travis Barker

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

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

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

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.

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

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

I'm obsessed with my children.

In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.

We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.

My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school.

I love tour, but I don't like traveling at night or driving long hours. But I love touring. If my kids could be out there full time, I'd probably never go home.

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.

I practice every day, I warm up before I play.

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.

My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.

Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.

I looked Death right in the face.

I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.