Travis Barker Quotes

I looked Death right in the face.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome 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.

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

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

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

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.

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.

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 was in a band called Hooker for a while.

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

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.

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

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'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'm obsessed with my children.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

For anybody who loves what they do, mediocrity is not enough. You don't have to be the best in the world, but you should be the best that you can be.

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

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

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

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

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