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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.
Travis Barker
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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.
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A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.
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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.
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And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.
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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.
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Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.
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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.
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We never worry about the big things, just the small things.
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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.
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Express yourself, put stuff down on tape, and see what lives.
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Take care of your colon and your colon will take care of you.
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I`ve always liked Dennis Chambers, he`s real flashy.
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When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging out with different types of people who listened to so many different types of music. I never wanted to be part of any one clique. I loved it all.
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I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.
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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.
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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.
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But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.
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With rock music, it usually revolves around the band. You go in as a band and probably take about a year to record an album. But for a hip-hop song, you can create a track and an idea with verses and choruses in a day, and get three different people on it. It seems like you're able to do more with hip-hop.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Playing my drums is therapy.
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I practice every day, I warm up before I play.
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And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
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In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.
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Once in a while, I'll slip and get off my vegan diet and have egg whites in the morning, that's a good source of protein while I'm out on the road. If I can feel my body starting to tire, those are good to keep you healthy.
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I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.
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I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.
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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.
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I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.
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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.
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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.
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Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.
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35.
I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.
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In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
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I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.
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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.
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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.
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On tour, you never have a home, you don`t get used to anything, and you`re always super busy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I want to beat the world record for the number of beats per second on a drum pad.
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I run every day now. I never ran before.
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My chops are still up, even though I`m not still in high school.
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Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.
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Enema of the State song is kind of like a tattoo, like a moment in time, but it aged well. It's not like one that you're looking at like, "Aw, God, I gotta get that s**t removed." It's something we're proud of.
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I juice a lot; I get as much protein as I can, because being a vegan, there isn't much protein. But that's pretty much it. I just drink lots of water, too. I'll have a protein shake as well every morning.
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I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.
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