Travis Barker Quotes

Take care of your colon and your colon will take care of you. ~ Travis Barker

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. ~ Travis Barker

I looked Death right in the face. ~ Travis Barker

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

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

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. ~ Travis Barker

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids. ~ Travis Barker

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. ~ Travis Barker

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. ~ Travis Barker

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. ~ Travis Barker

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

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

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

I practice every day, I warm up before I play. ~ Travis Barker

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

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

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

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. ~ Travis Barker

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

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too. ~ Travis Barker

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

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

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. ~ Travis Barker

Travis: The Aphrodite kids were ripping each other's clothes and throwing lipstick and jewellery. It was like a rabid herd of wild Bratz. ~ Rick Riordan

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. ~ Travis Barker

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

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. ~ Travis Barker

I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams. ~ B.o.B

I'm obsessed with my children. ~ Travis Barker

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. ~ Travis Barker

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. ~ Travis Barker

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. ~ Travis Barker

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

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. ~ Travis Barker

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. ~ Travis Barker

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. ~ Travis Barker

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

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. ~ Travis Barker

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. ~ Travis Barker

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. ~ Travis Barker

I'm probably the sexiest and best in bed. Even if I'm by myself in bed. ~ Blink-182

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. ~ Travis Barker

I was in a band called Hooker for a while. ~ Travis Barker

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. ~ Travis Barker

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

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

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. ~ Travis Barker

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. ~ Travis Barker

So many masks. Was she the only one who had no secret life, no other self in marrow or mind? ~ Clive Barker

From then on the improvement was dramatic, though still the conversations with the dead friend continued, until one morning he awoke crying, and realized he was crying, not only for his own loss but also for his friend's, for the unloved years. ~ Pat Barker

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty. ~ Nigel Barker

You're being watched too, remember?"
"I wasn't aware - "
"That some of the screens you're looking at are looking at you?"
"Yes."
"Well, they are. ~ Clive Barker

Seeing pictures of other places around the world makes me feel more important. Reminds me, even though life is short, there's so much to do. ~ Travis J. Dahnke

Born from different parents, they were siblings in death, destroyed by the same hand. ~ Clive Barker

What worth was a man who could not be haunted? ~ Clive Barker

North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me. ~ Travis Bowman

How old did you have to be before you learned the difference between the simulacrum of love and the reality? ~ Emily Croy Barker

There's no such thing as boundaries only limits that get pushed further and further. ~ Travis Pastrana

I swear, the bigger the bully, the smaller the dick. ~ Clive Barker

He had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon. ~ Clive Barker

You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it. ~ Clive Barker

Working hard is a great way to impact the world, to learn, to grow, to feel accomplished, and sometimes even to find happiness, but it becomes a problem when you do so at the expense of the people closest to you. ~ Travis Bradberry

Or were they breed who had died from their half-life, caught in the sun, perhaps, or withered by longing? ~ Clive Barker

Solving a real problem was much more meaningful than saving fictional souls from a fictional hell. ~ Dan Barker

The thing is, I don't really mean to disappoint you and all that, but it doesn't really matter what you do to me; I'll never tell you where he is. We're going to destroy your silly little circus. We're going to bring you down. - Hoshiko ~ Hayley Barker

I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want, and do not want, to be true. ~ Travis Walton

Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh ~ Michael Palin

There is a time in the life of every predicament where it is ripe for resolution. Emotions provide the cue to act when a problem is big enough to see, yet still small enough to solve. By understanding your emotions, you can move adeptly through your current challenges and prevent future ones. ~ Travis Bradberry

What did I see? It's no use telling you there are no words. Of course there are words; there are always words. The question is: can I wield them well enough to evoke the power of what I witnessed? That I doubt. But let me do my best. ~ Clive Barker

There's a girl, Dad."
He smiled a bit. "A girl."
"She kinda hates me, and I kinda ... "
"Love her?"
"I don't know. I don't think so. I mean ... how do you know?"
His smile grew wider. "When you're talking about her with your old dad because you don't know what else to do. ~ Jamie McGuire

She had opened a door ... and now she was walking with demons. And at the end of her travels, she would have her revenge ... Pain had made a sadist of her. ~ Clive Barker

I've dealt with a lot of producers who were pricks and I'm determined not to be that. ~ Clive Barker

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. ~ Joel A. Barker

Sometimes nature is even crueller than politics. ~ Clive Barker

I decided that I would do my best to be the worst thing Hell ever vomited forth. ~ Clive Barker

Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, filling up their lives with distractions to avoid the emptiness where curiosity should have been. ~ Clive Barker

Statistically, our family was due for a girl, and I'm not sure the world could handle a female Maddox. All the fight and anger, plus estrogen? Everyone would die." -Travis Maddox ~ Jamie McGuire

I'm not interested in entertainment. ~ Howard Barker

Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence. ~ Ronnie Barker

Anyway, it's gone. And there's nothing left in my pocket to charm you. So from now on it's going to have to be tears or nothing I'm afraid.
That's all I've got left to tell you see: tears, tears, tears. ~ Clive Barker

Welcome to the worst nightmare of all, reality! ~ Clive Barker

Scotty leaned across the table and whispered in a voice Travis wasn't supposed to have heard but did. "We've got to do something quick before Uncle Travis poisons us ~ Debbie Macomber

Two guys enter the cage and only one comes out the winner. It gets you pumped because you know the other guy is trying to finish you and you want to finish him before he gets his chance. ~ Travis Browne

You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face. ~ Pat Barker

Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it. ~ Dan Barker

Those prepared to give their lives in freedom's cause, come over to me ... ~ William B. Travis

I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music. ~ Ville Valo

There was a strange happening during a performance of Elgar's 'Sea Pictures' at a concert hall in Bermuda tonight, when the man playing the triangle disappeared. ~ Ronnie Barker

The only problem I see is that you're as stubborn as a mule, but I'm sure I'll find a way to whip that right out of you." "Literally or figuratively?" "That's entirely up to your pain tolerance. ~ Kira Barker

The best way to find a balance between doing your best and showing that you're ready for more is by developing other people. As tempting as it is to hoard knowledge, don't. Instead, make certain that there are others who know how to do important aspects of your job. ~ Travis Bradberry

Our Lord is a foot washer, not a controller. ~ Chris Travis

Sounds to me like those nails are touching too much gray matter. ~ Clive Barker