Quotes from Travis Barker

Once in a while, I'll slip and get off my vegan diet and have egg whites in the morning, that's a good source of protein while I'm out on the road. If I can feel my body starting to tire, those are good to keep you healthy.

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

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

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

I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I'm just going to fly them out and let them hang. It's all good.

I run every day now. I never ran before.

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

Playing my drums is therapy.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.