Travis Barker Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
-
My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
-
I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
-
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
-
Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.
-
You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
-
Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
-
There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
-
Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
-
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
-
I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
-
The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.
-
Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
-
One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.
-
Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
-
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
-
I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.
-
To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.
-
I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.
-
I have this vintage Valentino clutch. Ughhh, it's so pretty! Also, I'm not a big fur person, but I'll do a vintage fur every now and then.
-
I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.
-
It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
-
For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.
-
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.
