Travis Barker Quotes

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

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

I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.

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

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

Put me up in front of a million people and ask me to speak. I'll flop. But put me behind my drums and I'll always go with it.

Playing my drums is therapy.

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

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.

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

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

I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.

With rock music, it usually revolves around the band. You go in as a band and probably take about a year to record an album. But for a hip-hop song, you can create a track and an idea with verses and choruses in a day, and get three different people on it. It seems like you're able to do more with hip-hop.

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

I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.

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.

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.

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 practice every day, I warm up before I play.

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.

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.

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 want to beat the world record for the number of beats per second on a drum pad.

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

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.