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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. "
Travis Barker
Now
Edge
Nothing
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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. "
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" Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books. "
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" 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. "
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" I was in a band called Hooker for a while. "
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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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" I practice every day, I warm up before I play. "
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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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" 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
" 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. "
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Drum
Sit
" I run every day now. I never ran before. "
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Before
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" I'm obsessed with my children. "
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Obsessed
" 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. "
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Me
School
High School
" We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics. "
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" Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too. "
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" In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day. "
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" Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living. "
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" 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. "
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You
Kid
Good
" I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit. "
Travis Barker
Quit
Detroit
Playing
" 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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" We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour. "
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Songs
Miles
" But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can. "
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" I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go. "
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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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" 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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" 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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