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then robbed him of his will to live. sharing his story now with abc's chris conley and revealing how his kids are helping him overcome his fears. >> reporter: he's the drummer from blink-182 who rocked into the new millennium with such pleasingly pop hits as "all the small things." travis barker's over the edge lifestyle and prolific couplings, irresistible to fans and tabloids alike. >> it's like a dream. it's like a fantasy. you're just living it. >> reporter: then in an instant everything changed when the plane he was preparing to travel in crashed. >> former blink-182 druchler and disk jockey dj am was critically injured, four were killed. >> everything was just a flying metal capsule that's on fire that's going out of control. >> reporter: in his new memoir "can i say" barker opens up about what happened on a tragic september night in 2008. >> i call my pops. i just say, getting on a plane, pal, it feels like, i don't know, it just don't feel right. this plane is really small. >> reporter: barker and his close friend dj am are leaving a south carolina gig with two pals on a last-second private jet. >> we go to takeoff and you just hear like really -- it sounds like someone is shooting at the plane and the plane spirals out of control. it just starts skidding on the runway. smoke starts coming through, you know, the entire plane. and then we take off. and i'm screaming at this point. for me, at this point it's like my biggest fear in the world is coming true. >> reporter: the bomb ba deer lear jet smashes into the side of an embankment after crossing a five-lane highway. >> and the plane is on fire. and my hands are on fire. so i unbuckle my seat belt. i move to the left of me. i shake adam. he wakes up. >> reporter: with his friend adam barker somehow finds his way out but is engulfed in flames. >> i'm completely nude at this point. i'm running, grabbing my -- my testic testicles, my genital, i don't know why, because there's a highway full of people and i'm worried about them seeing my gwen talls. i don't know what it is. i strop, drop and roll for a long time. >> reporter: the plane explodes. his friend and two pilots left inside are dead. according to a ntsb report the cause of the deadly plane crash was a combination of severely underinflated tires. a design flaw in the aircraft's thrust reverser system and pilot's decision to abort takeoff too late. tonight lear jet manufacturer bombardie telling us safety is their priority adding that their aircraft meet the stringent quality and safety standards of authorities. while still infrequent private plane crash rest far more likely than those on commercial air crash. just this weekend a couple surviving this fiery crash near a texas airport. >> it was so fast. >> so fast. >> just happened too quick. >> reporter: as for travis barker he grappled with survivor's guilt for years and his physical recovery was a long one. >> i stayed in burn centers for like the next four months. >> reporter: severely burned. over 65% of his body. >> that, i mean, that feels like hell. you're put in a big metal pan and you're scrubbed with a metal brush to get rid of infection. and there's no painkillers that are going to mask that. >> reporter: he underwent 27 surgeries. >> did you want to kill yourself at any point? >> yes, in the hospital when they couldn't get my pain meds right, when i was waking up in surgeries, when, you know, my medication wasn't right, i would call friends of mine and go, y'all, i'll deposit a million dollars into whoever's bank account. i'm done. >> you were willing to pay someone a million dollars to take you out? >> oh, yeah. they had to take my phone out of my room because i was making these phone calls. >> reporter: what pulls him out, he says, were visits from his children. alabama and landon. >> it was just hard for them to see me in the state that i was in. they could collar in class and everyone is drawing pictures of their family or what they did on the weekend and landon is drawing a picture of a plane crashing. so, yeah. >> it's not right, is it? >> it was -- i mean, it was definitely something that -- i mean, he was old enough to understand. you know? >> reporter: less than a year later the crash perhaps claiming its final victim, adam goldstein, a talented deejay and addict in recovery seen here on his mtv series "gone too far" fighting to help others get clean. >> i'm a hartford, connecticut, and i'm going go meet gina who is a her win addict and talk to her and try and give her some help. >> reporter: he was eager to get back to work but still battling demons after the crash. >> what were the last things you remember him saying to you? >> unfortunately, and it wasn't -- i didn't really take it seriously. we get off stage and he, you know, we're hanging out and he said, man, travis, sometimes i just feel like doing a bunch of drugs and saying [ bleep ] it. >> reporter: two weeks later adam goldstein would be found dead of a drug overdose. >> it's something that i still think about to this day, did adam commit suicide or did he go back to using what he was using 12 years ago when he was like a junkie? >> reporter: chasoned by his brushes with death, barker is just shy of his 40th birthday, warming to the tasks of a typical l.a. dad. but he hasn't put those drums away. ♪ >> are you burning off energy? are you working out ideas? what's going on when that happens? >> to me it goes back to -- it just, the more i play, i the more confident i am. >> reporter: playing gigs with mark coppas in a reconstituted blank-182. >> what if we tried like 16 notes just like really -- that was my original idea. ♪ >> reporter: and though he hasn't been in a plane since that tragic night, he says he won't rule out flying in the future. >> i tell my children when you're ready to fly, i'm ready to fly. i don't want it to be a handicap for them. i dread it. i lose sleep over it. but if and when they say they want to do it, i'm going to 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where less is more. >> dreaming big in the past was being able to get a good house and then a better house. i think what people are discovering is that those things don't necessarily bring you closer faster to who you want to be. this is the palatial 84 square foot tiny house. >> reporter: dee williams home is only 84 square feet. >> from wall to wall it's 6'10". >> reporter: to put that in perspective the average american home is 2600 square feet, more than 30 times as big. >> the sleeping loft is a four foot ceiling up here. i measured myself in order to figure out, you know, how tall to make it. >> reporter: dee's place is not without its draw backs. >> one thing you may notice is missing is the faut set. i don't have running water. >> reporter: it's not the plumbing that drew her in, it's the lifestyle. >> a lot of people are discovering that what they have is really what they need. >> reporter: but tiny houses aren't just for the suburbs. in urban areas soaring populations and rising rents are making microapartments an increasingly appealing option. new construction projects in cities across the country are using modular designs to house the maximum amount of residents. >> hi. >> how is it going? >> good. welcome. >> reporter: sounds a little squished, but for 20 somethings like mary ellen rowel, living big is about having less and doing more. >> compared to most of my friends i have a thousand dollars or more extra every month that i can spend on going out. >> all right. so this is basically a quarter of the apartment. >> reporter: at just under 6 feet our producer chris james just barely fits into this new york city microabode which is about half the size of a average parking space. inspiring rowel to get creative. >> this chair and table set, it all folds and i can hang it all right here on the wall. a friend actually helped me build this bed. it's basically a platform with two drawers underneath that roll out for extra storage. they're pretty big. also pretty messy. >> wow. >> reporter: she does have all the necessities. a mini kitchen. >> i have a mini fridge. i have a mini sink. i have a toaster oven. >> i see everything but the bathroom. where is the bathroom? >> reporter: a bathroom, it's shared. >> so this is the bathroom that i don't spend a lot of time in there. >> reporter: but the biggest sacrifice for this fashionista is no closet. >> one of the first things i decided when i moved in is to do my closet as faceouts instead of a rail. >> reporter: rowel says her living situation has forced her to cut back on clutter and focus on what really malters to her. >> you know, you can get by with a lot less. and my life functions as a normal person's life in this tiny apartment. >> reporter: but that may be a challenge for gloria. >> i'm living in a house where there were five bedrooms, two living rooms, two bathrooms. >> reporter: she's moving out of her parents' house and into her own microapartment in rhode island. >> do you think 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year. >> cubs win world series. >> reporter: and there are these. fully tricked out converted deloreans on a side road off a highway in a dallas suburb made to look like the time traveling vehicles that were used in the films. >> this thing is a hobby that turned into a ccrazy business. >> reporter: turning these vintage deloreans, short lived brand in the early '80s of into so-called time machines is the brain child of bob moseley, former restaurant owner, who as a fan himself, bout a delorean. >> the thing about it is if you own a delorean you're going to have to deal with "back to the future" references. everywhere i went, they would say, hey, mcfly. because i had a engineering background. i put it in the car and the reaction of people seeing it was so great i started adding on to the car where you end up here. >> reporter: el issing the cars for up to $100,000 each, including century celebrity custers like tony parker. picking unone this time is a ceo of a telephone and cable provider in iowa. >> well, it's the iconic year, right, iconic movie vehicle. >> reporter: every wire in the car is exactly like it was in the films. when a part is too expensive like this turbine from a jet, moseley shop makes a mold and fabricates it. other parts like this clock, he springs for. >> this is the same exact bulova alarm clock he used in 1955 made in west germany, by the way. that shows how old it is. >> reporter: of course when the car hits 88 miles per hour, required speed to travel in time according to the movies, it's being rereleased today -- >> 88 miles per hour! >> reporter: -- moseley has it rigged with all the bells and whistles. >> everything lights up. the dates change. speed meter goes to 88. you have the full experience of the time travel event. what do you think? do you want to go for a ride? >> am i driving? >> no, i'm driving. i'll let you ride in the passenger seat. >> okay. all right. all right. here we go! let's get this up to 121 g gigowatts. >> let's see if you can do 90. >> this thing is a dangerous responsibility because people are so busy trying to take a picture of it. like for instance, this guy next to us. he's taking pictures with his phone. >> this does work? >> sure, that's my stereo. ♪ >> yeah. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm darren revelle in dunkenville, texas. >> and next, darren's trying out the hoverboard. thanks for watching abc news. tune in to "good morning america" tomorrow. and we're on 24/7 on our "nightline" facebook page. good night, america. ♪ ♪