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" I looked Death right in the face. "
Travis Barker
Looked
Death
Face
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" 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. "
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Fly
Work
" Playing my drums is therapy. "
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Playing
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" 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'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'm obsessed with my children. "
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Children
Obsessed
" 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. "
Travis Barker
Loved
Music
Way
" I practice every day, I warm up before I play. "
Travis Barker
Up
Practice
Play
" I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything. "
Travis Barker
Did
Many
Like
" We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics. "
Travis Barker
Mark
Tom
Write
" 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
Thankful
Alive
Fear
" 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 was in a band called Hooker for a while. "
Travis Barker
While
Band
" My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music. "
Travis Barker
Beatles
Music
Lot
" 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
Go
Different
Changes
" 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
Legs
Trying
Know
" On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy. "
Travis Barker
You
Used
Always
" 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
" I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet. "
Travis Barker
Protein
Diet
Rather
" 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
Transportation
Going
Like
" 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
Me
" I hate planes. "
Travis Barker
Planes
Hate
" 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
More
Like
Good
" 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. "
Travis Barker
Days
Light
Just
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Travis Barker
Fans
Time
New
" 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
" 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
Show
Gym
Days
" And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school. "
Travis Barker
Band
Jazz
School
" I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit. "
Travis Barker
Orange
Four
Love