Quotes from Travis Barker

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

The whole time after you record an album, you're just waiting for the release date. You're waiting for fans to hear it and stuff.

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.

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

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

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

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 practice every day, I warm up before I play.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I juice a lot; I get as much protein as I can, because being a vegan, there isn't much protein. But that's pretty much it. I just drink lots of water, too. I'll have a protein shake as well every morning.

I hate planes.

Usually, if I'm coming to Europe, I'm on a boat for seven days, so I spend the seven days doing a bunch of things. I'll do cardio for an hour or an hour-and-a-half and weights, just light weights.

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

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

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

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

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

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