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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.
Matthew Thomas Skiba Blink-182
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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.
Travis Barker Blink-182
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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.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182
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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.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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Vegetables....a waste of good plate space
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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I want to beat the world record for the number of beats per second on a drum pad.
Travis Barker Blink-182
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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.
Mark Hoppus 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
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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.
Travis Barker Blink-182
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I feel a certain amount of freedom just cruising to the liquor store to get water or whatever. It just feels good. It makes me feel young getting on the bike and - again, not going crazy, I do bunny-hops and I'll hit some curbs and stuff - but just feeling like a kid again.
Matthew Thomas Skiba Blink-182
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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.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182
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My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.
Travis Barker Blink-182
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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.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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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.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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Express yourself, put stuff down on tape, and see what lives.
Travis Barker Blink-182
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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.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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There's a time in your life where you're not quite sure where you are. You think everything's perfect, but it's not perfect... Then one day you wake up and you can't quite picture yourself in the situation you're in. But the secret is, if you can picture yourself doing anything in life, you can do it.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182
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I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.
Travis Barker Blink-182
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Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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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.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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Maybe I do wanna become a woman, so what is the crime in that?
Tom DeLonge Blink-182
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I don't get boy bands these days. Thye don't write their own songs and everything is choreographed from their dance moves to how they have sex with each other after the show.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182
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I was kicked out of middle school a few times. This guy who was kind of a d*** and a bully got hit by a car. I jumped up and went, YEAH Apparently that wasnt cool with some people cause I got kicked out.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182
