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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. "

Travis Barker

Songs

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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. "

" 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

Fly

Overcome

" 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. "

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

" 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 have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them. "

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

Travis Barker

Did

Many

" 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. "

" We never worry about the big things, just the small things. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Travis Barker

Good

" 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. "

" 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 died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong. "

Travis Barker

Mom

Strong

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

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

" I looked Death right in the face. "

" 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. "

" 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

School

High School

" 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. "

" My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music. "

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

" 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

Different

Changes

" We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics. "

" I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet. "

" A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing. "

" 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. "