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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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper."

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Donna Grant

"Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public."

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Donna Grant

"I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom."

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Donna Grant

"My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me."

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Donna Grant

"My mom is still yelling at me because she needs more autographed pictures."

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Donna Grant

"I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better."

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Donna Grant

"My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed."

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Donna Grant

"We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it."

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Donna Grant

"My mom is definitely my rock."

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Donna Grant

"I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying."

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Travis Barker
"But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can."

Play

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Travis Barker
"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."

Time

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

Music

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Travis Barker
"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."

Time

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

Love

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Travis Barker
"In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it."

Men

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Travis Barker
"And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school."

Jazz

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

School

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Travis Barker
"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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Travis Barker
"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."

School

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