Mark Hoppus Quotes
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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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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 think when people are jumping on top of each other's ideas, it elevates it a lot more than me going into the studio and working on something all by myself for a while.
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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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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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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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I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.
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Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.
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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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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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I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.
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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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A real punk is punk on the inside.
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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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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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I don't stream or buy CDs... pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.
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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.
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What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics.
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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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If your like me, you like to wait till your parents are having sex and walk in on them and act like its an accident, and then ask if you can join in.