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Travis Barker

"Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books."

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"Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books."

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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

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"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."

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"You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere."

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"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."

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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."

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"Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape."

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"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."

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"Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise."

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"My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about."

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"There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers."

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"All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding."
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"My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music."
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"But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can."
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"We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour."
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"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."
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"And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school."
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"We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs."
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"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."
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"I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit."
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"We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics."
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