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.
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.
We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.
We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.
My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school.
Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.
We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened.
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.
My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.
On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy.
We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.
We never worry about the big things, just the small things.
