Travis Barker: I Walked Away From Death

In an interview with Billboard, Travis Barker opened up about life after his near death plane crash. 'I Walked Away From Death'.

Barker discusses his high's and low's in anticipation of his new memoir 'Can I Say'

On cheating death: Back then I was living very much day-to-day. My attitude was like, "Shit, I could be dead tomorrow." I grew up losing my mom at a young age, being shot at at a young age. Doing lots of drugs. If it was my time, it was my time, but then it wasn't until when I had my kids -- everything changed. Then it was like, "Oh my gosh, what did I put in my body? What did I do that for?"

On his lowest point in life: ...in Australia [in 2004], I was so addicted to Oxycodone, and I had a security that would actually sleep during the day and then stay up at night to make sure I was breathing. That was pretty pathetic. My bones were so brittle from so much painkiller use. I had this moment when I got to Europe for that tour where I really identified myself as a dumpster. And I wasn't proud. I was scared. I had to call [Blink-182 member] Mark [Hoppus] and say, "Hey, man. I'm like borderline suicidal. I'm going crazy. I need to go home." Like not even one show had started. I'd been there two days. I hadn't slept one day. It was like naw, man. I need to go home and get my head right. So I think that was the most disappointing time.

On losing his best friend DJ AM: He was my best friend. It was beyond friendship. It was like there was only one other person in the world. And then losing him and just wondering, "F—k, is there something I could have done?" It was like the one thing that will never stop resurfacing in my head. I look at things. I see what's important and what's not important, and if anyone's going through anything severe, I can honestly say that before the plane crash... You don't know what it's about. There's very few people that go through something like that. Unless you've actually gone through something like that, you don't know how it feels. I'd just see people walking through their day and they don't realize they've never looked death in the face.