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" Playing my drums is therapy. "
Travis Barker
Drums
Playing
Therapy
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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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" 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 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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" 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. "
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" Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself. "
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Keep
Expressing
" 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. "
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Fast
Hard
" I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything. "
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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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Think
Relationship
" 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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Going
Like
" We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics. "
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Mark
Tom
Write
" I'm obsessed with my children. "
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Children
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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 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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" 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 want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids. "
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Children
" 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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" Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years. "
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Line
" 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. "
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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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" A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing. "
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" We never worry about the big things, just the small things. "
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" I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit. "
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