Mark Hoppus Quotes
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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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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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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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Vegetables....a waste of good plate space
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All the really pretty girls get pregnant.
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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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If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.
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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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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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Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are.
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When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.
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Yeah, I actually do know where I am.
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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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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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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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Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.
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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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I don't have a girlfriend, I have a dog.
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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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We worked very hard on that untitled record to do something different and that we were proud of and to try a bunch of different ideas. It was like this gigantic musical laboratory that we were going to every day. I love that record, I think that's one of the high watermarks of us as a band.
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Hard work, studying and perseverance will get you no where in life......it's all about kissing ass
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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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Thats not a place where I'm considered good-looking.