Mark Hoppus Quotes
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We're really good friends and we hang out. It's like I get to hang out with my friends and get paid for it.
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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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Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.
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Yeah, I actually do know where I am.
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It usually happens spur of the moment, like when I broke up My Chemical Romance, it was just that day that I decided it was time for them to be done. And people were very upset about it so I have to choose my next victims carefully.
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The strongest human emotion is probably love. I think it's universal. I think that across language and country and time and everything else, probably love.
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I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California, and I think that's what this album ['California']feels like - there's endless hope and optimism but there's also a darker side.
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There is nothing more awkward and more laughable than a naked dude with his wiener flopping.
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California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else.
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The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.
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I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.
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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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Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.
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A lot of guys like to fantasize about having sex with 2 girls at the same time... I like to fantasize about having sex with the same girl twice, thank you.
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There's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.
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Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are.
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Too many bands practice in their garage, play a couple of shows locally, and expect opportunities to appear from the sky. Bands have to push, work, grind, and struggle to make it happen on their own.
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I would probably say, 'Don't worry so much about stuff as you grow up.'
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I don't have a girlfriend, I have a dog.
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Thats not a place where I'm considered good-looking.
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I think that breaking into the mainstream - it was just the right cycle of music for us in Blink-182. People were kind of over the boy-band, pop-princess, manufactured sensibility, and were excited for guitars and angst and energy and enthusiasm, which is our thing.
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The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again.
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As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.
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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.