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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. "
Travis Barker
Style
Rock
Music
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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. "
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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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" 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 looked Death right in the face. "
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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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" Playing my drums is therapy. "
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" I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go. "
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Music
YouTube
" I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit. "
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Quit
Detroit
Playing
" I wanted to say thanks... and share my gratitude for everything I've been blessed with. Family, friends, and continued support from everyone. "
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Blessed
Family
Gratitude
" Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books. "
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Serious
Books
Oh
" I run every day now. I never ran before. "
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Day
Before
Run
" My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school. "
Travis Barker
High School
High
School
" In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day. "
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Eat
Day
" We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour. "
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Just
Songs
Miles
" I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them. "
Travis Barker
Leave
Friday
Monday
" I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit. "
Travis Barker
Orange
Four
Love
" I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything. "
Travis Barker
Did
Many
Like
" 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
Everything
Teacher
Jazz
" 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
Kids
Just
Children
" I'm obsessed with my children. "
Travis Barker
Children
Obsessed
" And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach. "
Travis Barker
Flash
Music
Band
" 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
Healthy
Morning
Road
" We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs. "
Travis Barker
Bunch
Good
Write
" In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it. "
Travis Barker
Piano
Women
Choir
" It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it. "
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Fly
Me
Overcome
" I practice every day, I warm up before I play. "
Travis Barker
Up
Practice
Play
" My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong. "
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Mom
Strong
Me
" I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself. "
Travis Barker
Limits
Keep
Expressing
" Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years. "
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Three
High School
Line
" The whole time after you record an album, you're just waiting for the release date. You're waiting for fans to hear it and stuff. "
Travis Barker
Just
Hear
Waiting