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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

On tour, you never have a home, you don`t get used to anything, and you`re always super busy.

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.

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.

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

I run every day now. I never ran before.

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

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

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.

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.

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