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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. "
Travis Barker
Just
Hear
Waiting
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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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" I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them. "
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Friday
Monday
" I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit. "
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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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" We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics. "
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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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" On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy. "
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Used
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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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" I've always liked Dennis Chambers, he's real flashy. "
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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 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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Legs
Trying
Know
" 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. "
Travis Barker
Time
Fly
Work
" 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
" My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school. "
Travis Barker
High School
High
School
" 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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Go
Different
Changes
" 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 want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself. "
Travis Barker
Limits
Keep
Expressing
" 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. "
Travis Barker
Three
High School
Line
" 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. "
Travis Barker
Time
Driving
Home
" 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
" 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
" 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'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'm obsessed with my children. "
Travis Barker
Children
Obsessed
" I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go. "
Travis Barker
Destination
Music
YouTube
" 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. "
Travis Barker
Juice
Water
I Can
" A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing. "
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Musicians
Think
Rock
" I looked Death right in the face. "
Travis Barker
Looked
Death
Face
" 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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" And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach. "
Travis Barker
Flash
Music
Band