Mark Hoppus Quotes

During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.

I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about.

We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.

I just want everyone out there to know that I'm super-awesome and a great guy and really cool to talk to and that I appreciate all the support.

It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time,

I would probably say, 'Don't worry so much about stuff as you grow up.'

It really expresses a man in pain.

Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.

I don't stream or buy CDs ... pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.

Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself.

Hard work, studying and perseverance will get you no where in life ... it's all about kissing ass

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.

All the really pretty girls get pregnant.

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.

Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.

True happiness for me is playing a concert in Blink-182, and then hanging out with my friends and my wife and son, and going out for Mexican food.

If something is wrong with you, hate someone else for it

It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.

Every single day that you walk outside your house is something new and different and exciting.

As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.

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.

I think age is just a stupid number.

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

I'm always asking friends what new music they're into, and I love showing people new talented artists.

There is nothing more awkward and more laughable than a naked dude with his wiener flopping.

I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.

Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.

The Beatles never get old.

Maybe people would be surprised to know that I listen to old Neil Diamond albums from time to time. The man rocks. I defy anyone to prove me wrong.

Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals.

I don't have a girlfriend, I have a dog.

I like to get Honey Combs, and Apple Jax, and Captain Crunch Berries and mix them all together, but I'm freak and I use water instead of milk.

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

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.

If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.

The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human

Vegetables ... a waste of good plate space

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.

I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.

A real punk is punk on the inside.

I hate it when people try to act cool. I hope they all get gonorreah and die.

Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are.

I dated the same girl all through high school.

Make yourself do something stupid so when you really do something stupid you won't feel so bad

It's hard to cover for someone who's disrespectful and ungrateful ... To say, 'I didn't quit the band' is just not true. It's disingenuous.

Life's too short to sit through songs you don't love.

I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.

Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal.

Thats not a place where I'm considered good-looking.

Never let anyone tell you how to live your life.

Farts and poop are still funny and will always be funny.

Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.

There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.

It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't like to find stuff I do like.

'The White Album' is a record I can go back to time and time again, and always find something different that I never noticed or appreciated before.

Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they'd still be in the boat.

I feel like anyone can be a kid forever as long as you have that mindset and attitude towards the world.

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.

We reserve the right to make fun of every single person on planet Earth.