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" 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
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" 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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" 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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" 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'm obsessed with my children. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything. "
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" 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. "
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" But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can. "
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" I was in a band called Hooker for a while. "
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" I hate planes. "
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" I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go. "
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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 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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" 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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