Quotes By Travis Barker

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

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.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.

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

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

Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years.

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.

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.

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

I'm obsessed with my children.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I hate planes.

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

I was in a band called Hooker for a while.