Blink-182 Quotes
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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.
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I feel like anyone can be a kid forever as long as you have that mindset and attitude towards the world.
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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.
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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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What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics.
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I don't stream or buy CDs... pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.
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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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There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.
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The process of introducing people to new music is amazing. It's a gift. One of the best parts of any day is when someone says, 'Hey, check out this new band...'
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We're immature guys playing pranks on people, having fun.
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I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.
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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 have to be able to stick to very dedicated times to work on things, do exactly as I say I'm going to do, show up when I say I'm going to show up and focus that's the only way I've been able to pull off everything last year but I'm hoping I'll never have to do that again, it's a hell of a lot of work that's for sure.
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Enema of the State song is kind of like a tattoo, like a moment in time, but it aged well. It's not like one that you're looking at like, "Aw, God, I gotta get that s**t removed." It's something we're proud of.
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So many artists today will talk about green this or organic that, but you know what? What we are eating, I think, is really doing a lot of bad to us. I'm not sure if I'm the guy to do it right now, because I have to clean up my house too, so to speak, but we've got to start addressing this. Too many people are getting sick today.
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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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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.
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I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go.
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But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.
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I've never been a jam-band sort of musician.
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I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.
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I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.
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Vegetables....a waste of good plate space
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Spending so much time on the road, I get to fart all the time. Then when it's, like, Thanksgiving dinner and I'm sitting with my grandmother, I can't fart for, like, two hours.