Top 35 Travis Barker Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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 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.

I run every day now. I never ran before.

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

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.

I wanted to say thanks… and share my gratitude for everything I’ve been blessed with. Family, friends, and continued support from everyone.

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

I was in a band called Hooker for a while.

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

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don’t want nannies raising my kids.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.

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

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

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.

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

I hate planes.

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.

I think putting your relationship out there for people to interpret and have their own opinion about, I think it’s crazy.

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