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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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My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.
Travis Barker Blink-182
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But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.
Travis Barker Blink-182
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We're really good friends and we hang out. It's like I get to hang out with my friends and get paid for it.
Mark Hoppus 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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Vegetables....a waste of good plate space
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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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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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 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 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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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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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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All the selling out talk is really overrated, the funny thing is it hardly ever comes from bands, it comes from some kid who thinks they're so punk because they have a purple mohawk.
Tom DeLonge 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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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 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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I told myself I would never stop skating. I would never stop riding bikes or riding motorcycles. I raced dirt when I was a kid; motocross. So it definitely keeps me in tune with my youth. I'm almost 40 years old and I feel like I'm 17 years old, and I feel like that's really healthy.
Matthew Thomas Skiba Blink-182
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Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else.
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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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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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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Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV anymore, you just go on Youtube.
Travis Barker Blink-182
