Travis Barker: "Thankful to Be Alive!"

Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker says that he is lucky and thankful for being alive after a horrific plane crash last month in South Carolina that killed two of his best friends.

"I hate planes," Barker said in an interview with Us Weekly magazine. "My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened . . . well, I'm just thankful to be alive! I'm just grateful to be here at all."

The 32-year-old musician and DJ AM were the only two, of the six on board, to make it out of the plane. Barker and AM were both released from the hospital last week, after being treated for significant burns.

"I am doing the best I can possibly be," he said in the magazine's latest issue before he got out of the hospital. "I'm so anxious to get out of here. . . . I've just been in surgery after surgery. I have third-degree burns basically from my feet up to my waist and both hands. One of my hands has second-degree burns and one has third-degree burns."