Quotes by Travis Barker

About Travis Barker:

Travis Landon Barker is an American musician and producer, most noted as the drummer for the American rock band Blink-182. Barker has also performed as a frequent collaborator with hip-hop artists, and with the alternative rock band +44, the rap rock group the Transplants, and the alternative rock band Box Car Racer. He was a frequent collaborator with the late DJ AM, and together they formed TRV$DJAM.
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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

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.

Travis Barker

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

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

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

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

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

Travis Barker

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.

Travis Barker

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

Travis Barker

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.

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

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

Travis Barker

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

Travis Barker

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

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

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

Travis Barker

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.

Travis Barker

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

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

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameTravis Barker
  • DescriptionAmerican drummer and music producer
  • BornNovember 14, 1975
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionDrummer; Composer; Musician