Travis Barker Quotes

I run every day now. I never ran before.

I practice every day, I warm up before I play.

I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.

I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.

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.

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.

I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.

I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them.

I hate planes.

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

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

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

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

I was in a band called Hooker for a while.

I looked Death right in the face.

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.

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

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.

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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