Mark Hoppus Quotes
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'The White Album' is a record I can go back to time and time again, and always find something different that I never noticed or appreciated before.
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I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.
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I don't think any of us felt like, "Oh, we need to put joke songs on the record." If we found something funny, we would record it, and if we wanted to, we'd put it on the record. It's not really something we spent too much time agonizing over.
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No matter what, I think people are trying to better themselves, or to better their situation, or to find something new and exciting.
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Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
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I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the world. Read books, watch movies, see art, see the world, meet new people.
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We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.
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From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.
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I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.
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I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.
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Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul.
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Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.
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A real punk is punk on the inside.
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If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.
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You guys are lucky, cuz in Europe, like you can show boobs on TV and like in magazines and what not. We're Americans so the slightest, the slightest glimpse of a nipple will.
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I think age is just a stupid number.
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Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal.
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Every one of those old songs like "What's My Age Again?" and "All the Small Things" is like a tattoo or a scrapbook or an old photograph. There are just songs that define certain moments in your life. Everyone has a song that got them through a bad breakup or they put on and it made them feel like they wanted to go out and kick the world's ass with their friends on a weekend. Those songs still feel like that to me.
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I feel like anyone can be a kid forever as long as you have that mindset and attitude towards the world.
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Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they'd still be in the boat.
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What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics.
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I don't stream or buy CDs... pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.
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The process of introducing people to new music is amazing. It's a gift. One of the best parts of any day is when someone says, 'Hey, check out this new band...'
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I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about.