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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. "
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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" 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 practice every day, I warm up before I play. "
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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 Can
" We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks. "
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" 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. "
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Waiting
" If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us. "
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Time
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" 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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Me
" On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy. "
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Used
Always
" Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living. "
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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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Me
Like
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" 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
Blessed
Family
Gratitude
" I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids. "
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Kids
Just
Children
" I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything. "
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Many
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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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Half
Problem
Ride
" Playing my drums is therapy. "
Travis Barker
Drums
Playing
Therapy
" There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air. "
Travis Barker
Responsibility
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Home
" 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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Now
Edge
Nothing
" A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing. "
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Musicians
Think
Rock
" And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach. "
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Flash
Music
Band
" We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour. "
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Just
Songs
Miles
" 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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Go
Different
Changes
" 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
" 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
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Line
" In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day. "
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Every Day
Eat
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" 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
Started
Fast
Hard
" 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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Rock
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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 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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Legs
Trying
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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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My Life
Life
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