Travis Barker

I hate planes.

— Travis Barker

I run every day now. I never ran before.

— Travis Barker

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

— Travis Barker

Playing my drums is therapy.

— Travis Barker

I looked Death right in the face.

— Travis Barker

I was in a band called Hooker for a while.

— Travis Barker

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

— Travis Barker

I'm obsessed with my children.

— Travis Barker

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

— Travis Barker

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

— Travis Barker

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

— Travis Barker

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

— Travis Barker

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

— Travis Barker

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

— Travis Barker

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

— Travis Barker

Take care of your colon and your colon will take care of you.

— Travis Barker

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

— Travis Barker

I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different

— Travis Barker

I juice a lot; I get as much protein as I can, because being a vegan, there isn't much protein. But that's…

— Travis Barker

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a…

— Travis Barker

Enema of the State song is kind of like a tattoo, like a moment in time, but it aged well. It's not…

— Travis Barker

I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon,…

— Travis Barker

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

— Travis Barker

Usually, if I'm coming to Europe, I'm on a boat for seven days, so I spend the seven days doing a bunch…

— Travis Barker

I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have…

— Travis Barker

With rock music, it usually revolves around the band. You go in as a band and probably take about a year to…

— Travis Barker

When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging out with…

— Travis Barker

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

— Travis Barker

Express yourself, put stuff down on tape, and see what lives.

— Travis Barker

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

— Travis Barker

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.

— Travis Barker

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

— Travis Barker

I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.

— Travis Barker

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.

— Travis Barker

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

— Travis Barker

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

— Travis Barker

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

— Travis Barker

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

— Travis Barker

Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.

— Travis Barker

“The more faith you can absorb, the more hope you can have.”

— Travis Barker