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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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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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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Vegetables....a waste of good plate space
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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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All the really pretty girls get pregnant.
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If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.
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Yeah, I actually do know where I am.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 would probably say, 'Don't worry so much about stuff as you grow up.'
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Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.
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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 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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I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.
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I don't have a girlfriend, I have a dog.
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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