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I do what I love for a living, and I also get to build BMX bikes in my spare time.
Matthew Thomas Skiba Blink-182
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When you see opportunities in your life, you've got to analyze, 'Why was that choice given to me?
Tom DeLonge Blink-182
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I try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I'll do 30 to 45 minutes on show days. That's the first thing I do when I wake up, I have breakfast and then I'll hit the gym.
Travis Barker Blink-182
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Even when I'm old and grey I'll probably be cruising around and bunny-hopping and stuff. In the words of the Descendents, "I don't want to grow up."
Matthew Thomas Skiba Blink-182
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I don't think any of us felt like, "Oh, we need to put joke songs on the record." If we found something funny, we would record it, and if we wanted to, we'd put it on the record. It's not really something we spent too much time agonizing over.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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I liked seventeen-year-old me, I was happy when I was seventeen. I was this troubled goth kid that wore eyeliner and make-up to school and listened to punk-rock music and I loved my friends and I started to make music - I like seventeen-year-old me.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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I applaud anyone who thinks I'm good-looking and invite them into my world.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182
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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
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But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182
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At an early age I told myself I would never quit skating, I would never quit riding BMX and being a motorcycle junkie. I just can't stop doing those things.
Matthew Thomas Skiba Blink-182
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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.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
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
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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.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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I think I might get laid more...by my dad.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182
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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.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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With rock music, it usually revolves around the band. You go in as a band and probably take about a year to record an album. But for a hip-hop song, you can create a track and an idea with verses and choruses in a day, and get three different people on it. It seems like you're able to do more with hip-hop.
Travis Barker Blink-182
