Mark Hoppus Quotes
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During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.
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It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't like to find stuff I do like.
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My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.
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The Beatles never get old.
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I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.
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Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music you listened to at the time. When people are down, they listen to music that commiserates that emotion. When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs.
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It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.
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Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.
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It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.
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Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.
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Getting to meet other artists that I admire is one of the best parts of my job. I don't know if I'd say 'star struck' as much as excited to hear other peoples' ideas.
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I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.
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Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.
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Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to tell you you're an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.
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Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.
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I like the beaches in Orange County the best. I think Orange County has great beaches. Everything from Dana Point to Newport to Laguna; all over the place.
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The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.
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I'm always asking friends what new music they're into, and I love showing people new talented artists.
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I don't have a problem being on 'MTV,' and I don't have a problem being on the radio. I actually like it. So there. And anyone that calls me a sell out is just jealous.
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It's hard to cover for someone who's disrespectful and ungrateful...To say, 'I didn't quit the band' is just not true. It's disingenuous.
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I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.
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Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.
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I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.
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All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.