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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
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" And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach. "
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" I hate planes. "
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" I'm obsessed with my children. "
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" In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it. "
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" 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. "
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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 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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" 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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Edge
Nothing
" 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 in a band called Hooker for a while. "
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" Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too. "
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" On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy. "
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You
Used
Always
" I think putting your relationship out there for people to interpret and have their own opinion about, I think it's crazy. "
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Think
Relationship
" I've always liked Dennis Chambers, he's real flashy. "
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Real
Liked
" 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. "
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Thankful
Alive
Fear
" 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
Number
" 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'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 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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Everything
Teacher
Jazz
" My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music. "
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Beatles
Music
Lot
" 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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" We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour. "
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Miles
" I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go. "
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Destination
Music
YouTube
" 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
Music
" I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them. "
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Monday
" I run every day now. I never ran before. "
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" 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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" Playing my drums is therapy. "
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Playing
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