Quotes By Travis Barker

Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.

I was in a band called Hooker for a while.

I hate planes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

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

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

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 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.

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'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.

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 run every day now. I never ran before.