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I wanted to say thanks... and share my gratitude for everything I've been blessed with. Family, friends, and continued support from everyone.

- Travis Barker

Blessed, Everyone, Been, Thanks

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.

- Travis Barker

Play, Sure, Still, Skateboard

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

- Travis Barker

Myself, Want, Keep, Pushing

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

- Travis Barker

Descendants, Too, Bill, Stevenson

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.

- Travis Barker

Egg, Feel, Source, Vegan Diet

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.

- Travis Barker

Like, About, Learned, Stoked

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.

- Travis Barker

Tell, Drum, Hang, Bummed

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

- Travis Barker

High, Still, Though, Chops

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

- Travis Barker

Love, Play, County, Orange County

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.

- Travis Barker

Set, About, Touring, Drum Set

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

Like, Weeks, Seemed, Two Weeks

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

- Travis Barker

Rock, Think, Lot, Rock Musicians

I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.

- Travis Barker

Need, Protein, Rather, Supplements

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

- Travis Barker

Thankful, Living, Downs, Ups

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.

- Travis Barker

Listening, Play, New, Backstreet

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

- Travis Barker

Down, Another, Which, Pan

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.

- Travis Barker

More, Like, Opposite, Fresh

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.

- Travis Barker

Doing, Seven, Cardio, Weights

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

My Life, Been, Another, Changed

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

- Travis Barker

Through, Leave, Them, Friday

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

- Travis Barker

Think, I Think, Putting, Interpret

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

Play, Jazz, Away, Tilt

I run every day now. I never ran before.

- Travis Barker

Every Day, Never, Before, Ran

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

- Travis Barker

Places, Like, Period, Transportation

Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years.

- Travis Barker

Chair, Line, Drum, Snare

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

- Travis Barker

Death, Overcome, Want, Scared

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

- Travis Barker

Music, Tom, Then, Lyrics

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

Song, Go, Use, Norm

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

- Travis Barker

Suicide, Machine, I Quit, Detroit

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.

- Travis Barker

Younger, Like, Going, Poppy

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