Mark Hoppus Quotes
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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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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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There is nothing more awkward and more laughable than a naked dude with his wiener flopping.
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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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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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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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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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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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If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.
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I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.
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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 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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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.
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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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What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics.
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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 think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better.
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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.