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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.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
There was a great push and pull of what Blink-128 should sound like all the time. Travis Barker comes from a different background than I do, and Tom DeLonge comes from a different background than either of us in terms of what we write and what we think a song should be. Tom pushes me out of a box that I put myself in.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
I'm obsessed with my children.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
I used to race at the YMCA in Crystal Lake, Illinois, they used to have a dirt track there, and there was also a track near Rockford, Illinois, that I would go to.
Matthew Thomas Skiba Blink-182 -
All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.
Travis Barker Blink-182
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I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
I don't want to spend a month and a half in a studio with music I don't like, and fortunately I don't have to.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
Once I was in the Blink-182, going to Iraq was really touching. It was kind of emo for me, going and meeting soldiers who were, like, 19 and hadn't even met their kids... Or dealing with depression. Just being with those soldiers and traveling with them in helicopters and people with M-16s. It was an eye-opener.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
When you see opportunities in your life, you've got to analyze, 'Why was that choice given to me?
Tom DeLonge Blink-182 -
When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging out with different types of people who listened to so many different types of music. I never wanted to be part of any one clique. I loved it all.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
'The White Album' is a record I can go back to time and time again, and always find something different that I never noticed or appreciated before.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182 -
I usually just wear black so my shoes and my socks are my rays of sunshine.
Matthew Thomas Skiba Blink-182
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We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later on. Look at people who are working nine-to-five jobs out of college, and look at professional skateboarders or guys in punk bands. See who's having more fun.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182 -
I just want everyone out there to know that I'm super-awesome and a great guy and really cool to talk to and that I appreciate all the support.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
Ideally, each week, I'd like to have rad, intelligent, creative, funny guests with different takes on the world of music. I will ask them all what their favorite blink-182 song is, and what they like best about me as a person.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182