Mark Hoppus Quotes

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

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

Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to tell you you're an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.

Vegetables....a waste of good plate space

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

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.

I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

And anyone that calls me a sell-out is just jealous.

I grew up the biggest fan of the Cure. Knew every lyric, had every album, B-side, single, poster, everything. Then cut to fifteen years later, and we're working on songs together. Ridiculous.

The Beatles never get old.

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

I don't have a problem being on 'MTV,' and I don't have a problem being on the radio. I actually like it. So there. And anyone that calls me a sell out is just jealous.

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.

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

No matter what, I think people are trying to better themselves, or to better their situation, or to find something new and exciting.

I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.

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

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.

What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics.

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

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

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.

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

I think when people are jumping on top of each other's ideas, it elevates it a lot more than me going into the studio and working on something all by myself for a while.

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

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.

It really expresses a man in pain.

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