Travis Barker Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.

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

Put me up in front of a million people and ask me to speak. I'll flop. But put me behind my drums and I'll always go with it.

Express yourself, put stuff down on tape, and see what lives.

Take care of your colon and your colon will take care of you.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Playing my drums is therapy.

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

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

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

I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.

Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV anymore, you just go on Youtube.

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've always loved playing in bands where there's like three or four people and we're all throwing out ideas and coming together to make an album.

Usually, if I'm coming to Europe, I'm on a boat for seven days, so I spend the seven days doing a bunch of things. I'll do cardio for an hour or an hour-and-a-half and weights, just light weights.

I try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I'll do 30 to 45 minutes on show days. That's the first thing I do when I wake up, I have breakfast and then I'll hit the gym.

I run every day now. I never ran before.

I want to beat the world record for the number of beats per second on a drum pad.

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

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

I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different

It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.

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.

I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go.

I was in a band called Hooker for a while.

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.

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