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. – Travis Barker
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. – Travis Barker
On tour, you never have a home, you don’t get used to anything, and you’re always super busy. – Travis Barker
Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books. – Travis Barker
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. – Travis Barker
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
And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach. – Travis Barker
I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don’t leave them the whole time I have them. – Travis Barker
We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It’s not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened. – Travis Barker
My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong. – 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 lot of different tempo changes in a song. – Travis Barker
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. – Travis Barker
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. – Travis Barker
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. – Travis Barker
I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There’s so many. I like everything. – Travis Barker
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. – 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
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
