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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 -
I feel like anyone can be a kid forever as long as you have that mindset and attitude towards the world.
Mark Hoppus 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 -
On tour, you never have a home, you don`t get used to anything, and you`re always super busy.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
The extent of my personal BMX adventures were all [on] dirt tracks. But just the aesthetic of it that early-to-mid-'80s BMX is something that's just part of me.
Matthew Thomas Skiba Blink-182 -
If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
We're immature guys playing pranks on people, having fun.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182
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I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
Vegetables....a waste of good plate space
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
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 -
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.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive! I'm just grateful to be here at all.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
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 -
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.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
The bike that I've been riding is a Big Ripper. It' an SE Racing 29" bike that Famous [Stars & Straps] did a collaboration with and Travis [Barker] gave to me. So that's the bike that I cruise around on and bunny-hop on.
Matthew Thomas Skiba Blink-182 -
Every one of those old songs like "What's My Age Again?" and "All the Small Things" is like a tattoo or a scrapbook or an old photograph. There are just songs that define certain moments in your life. Everyone has a song that got them through a bad breakup or they put on and it made them feel like they wanted to go out and kick the world's ass with their friends on a weekend. Those songs still feel like that to me.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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You guys are lucky, cuz in Europe, like you can show boobs on TV and like in magazines and what not. We're Americans so the slightest, the slightest glimpse of a nipple will.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
When I was growing up skateboarding, a bunch of friends and I went to this thrift store and as we were leaving I jumped up and passed gas in my friend's face. I turned around and it wasn't my friend, it was this nice old lady who was just walking out of the store. That was probably one of the more awkward apologies I've had to make in my life.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
I don't stream or buy CDs... pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
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