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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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" 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 looked Death right in the face. "

" We never worry about the big things, just the small things. "

" 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

Different

Changes

" Playing my drums is therapy. "

" A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing. "

" But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can. "

" We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics. "

" 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

" 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. "

" Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living. "

" My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school. "

" 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

Good

" I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself. "

" I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy. "

" And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach. "

" 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. "

" We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs. "

" I've always liked Dennis Chambers, he's real flashy. "

" 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. "

" It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it. "

Travis Barker

Fly

Overcome

" 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. "

" There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air. "

" In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day. "

" 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. "

" 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. "