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.

-Travis Barker

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I Tattooed My Body

Travis Barker

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.

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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.

Teacher

Play

Tilt

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.

Home

Kids

Night

In 1996, I Was In Was In An Acoustic Kind Of Rock Band, We Were Called Feeble. We Were Just Playing Locally.

Rocks

Band

Acoustics

We Never Worry About The Big Things, Just The Small Things.

Worry

Bigs

Big Things

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.

Mom

Dream

School

In Junior High, I Sang In Madrigals, Men's' And Women's' Choir. I Played Piano Too, But Then I Got Out Of It.

Men

Piano

Juniors

I Play Orange County Drums. I Love Those Guys. I've Got A Four Piece Kit.

Play

Orange

Guy

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.

Mean

Journey

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.

Trying

Wake Up

Breakfast

And I Was In Another Band Called Flash In The Pan, Which Was Soca, Latin Music, Down In Laguna Beach.

Beach

Latin

Band

My Chops Are Still Up, Even Though I`m Not Still In High School.

School

High School

Stills

Enema Of The State Song Is Kind Of Like A Tattoo, Like A Moment In Time, But It Aged Well. It's Not Like One That You're Looking At Like, "aw, God, I Gotta Get That S**t Removed." It's Something We're Proud Of.

Tattoo

Song

Proud

I Listen To Everything From Jazz To Reggae To Heavy Metal And I Kind Of Combine Everything To Make Something Different

Different

Jazz

Kind

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.

Technology

Used

Bummed Out

I Don't Like Traveling, Period. I Like Being At Places And I Like Going Places, But I Don't Like Forms Of Transportation.

Form

Periods

Transportation

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.

Jobs

Fall

Play

Take Care Of Your Colon And Your Colon Will Take Care Of You.

Care

Take Care

On Tour, You Never Have A Home, You Don`t Get Used To Anything, And You`re Always Super Busy.

Home

Busy

Used

I Wanted To Say Thanks... And Share My Gratitude For Everything I've Been Blessed With. Family, Friends, And Continued Support From Everyone.

Gratitude

Blessed

Grateful

A Lot Of People Think That Punk Rock Musicians Don't Know What They're Doing.

Thinking

Rocks

People

I'm Obsessed With My Children.

Children

My Children

Obsessed

I Need Protein From Food Rather Than Just Protein Supplements. I Changed My Diet.

Needs

Protein

Changed

I`ve Always Liked Dennis Chambers, He`s Real Flashy.

Real

Flashy

Chamber

Oh, I Was Super Serious About Practicing And Rudiments, And Still Am. I Still Have All My Books.

Book

Serious

Stills

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.

Grateful

Alive

Crash

It Seems Like I Have More In Common - Or Hit It Off Better - With Rappers Than Fools That Are In Rock Music. It Was Always Natural For Me.

Rapper

Rocks

Fool

I Want To Keep Pushing The Limits For Drummers And Expressing Myself.

Want

Limits

Pushing

I Looked Death Right In The Face.

Faces

Bill Stevenson Of The Descendants Is Really Good, Too.

Bills

Descendants

I Practice Every Day, I Warm Up Before I Play.

Practice

Play

Warm

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.

Children

Kids

Play

I Guess Youtube Is The New Destination Spot For Music Videos. That's Where I Go.

Video

Destination

Spots

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.

Eye

Numbers

Way

But Really, Anytime, I Play On A Practice Pad As Much As I Can.

Practice

Play

Pads

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.

People

Speak

Ask Me

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.

Song

Band

Gigs

Express Yourself, Put Stuff Down On Tape, And See What Lives.

Tape

Stuff

Express Yourself

Thank You For Life, And All The Little Ups And Downs That Make It Worth Living.

Thank You

Thanksgiving

Littles

Playing My Drums Is Therapy.

Therapy

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.

Trying

Legs

Able

I Have My Kids Every Friday Through Monday, And I Don't Leave Them The Whole Time I Have Them.

Friday

Monday

Kids

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.

People

Way

Different

I Want A Certain Thing For My Children. I Just Want To Be In Their Life. I Don't Want Nannies Raising My Kids.

Children

Kids

Nannies

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.

Littles

Poppies

Punk

I Like Steve Gadd, Everything He Did With Steely Dan. There's So Many. I Like Everything.

Steely Dan

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.

Morning

Water

Juice

I Was In A Band Called Hooker For A While.

Band

I Was Playing With The Aquabats, And Then I Quit To Join A Band Called Suicide Machine In Detroit.

Suicide

Band

Machines

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.

Light

Europe

Half

In The Hospital, I Promised Myself That I Ever Walked Again, That I Would Eat Well And Swim Every Day.

Swim

Wells

Hospitals

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.

Home

Responsibility

Air

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.

Skateboarding

Half

Body

I Think Punk, Pop-punk, And Rock Music Is All Meshed Together And I Think Good Music Is Good Music.

Thinking

Rocks

Together

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.

Rocks

Play

Style

And I Played In Jazz Band As Well During All Three Years In School.

School

Years

Three

Anything That Has To Do With Rock Seems To Be On The Decline. There's Not A Lot Of Rock Stations Or Mtv Anymore, You Just Go On Youtube.

Rocks

Mtv

Goes On

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.

Boys

Play

Listening

My Mom Listened To The Beatles And Elvis, A Lot Of Different Types Of Music.

Mom

Redneck

Different

I've Always Loved Playing In Bands Where There's Like Three Or Four People And We're All Throwing Out Ideas And Coming Together To Make An Album.

Ideas

People

Together

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.

Song

Ideas

Rocks

I Run Every Day Now. I Never Ran Before.

Running

Ran

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.

Morning

Eggs

Healthy

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.

Song

Signatures

Different

I Want To Beat The World Record For The Number Of Beats Per Second On A Drum Pad.

Numbers

Records

World

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