Top 80 Quotes & Sayings by Travis Barker - Page 2

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

On tour, you never have a home, you don`t get used to anything, and you`re always super busy.

I want to beat the world record for the number of beats per second on a drum pad.

Take care of your colon and your colon will take care of you.

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

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.

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.

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.

Express yourself, put stuff down on tape, and see what lives.

I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different

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

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.

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.