Tom DeLonge Quotes

Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are

When we realize how little we mean to the universe, we realize how important we are to each other

In leaving negativity behind, you find something beautiful.

You’ve got to not only love yourself for who you are with all your mistakes, but you’ve got to love the world for what it can bring you if you have the right attitude

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men.

I've masturbated like 5 times in the last 24 hours... it hurts... it's going to fall off.

I think dreams hold a lot of meaning. I believe that if the universe is truthfully infinite then there are infinite possibilities for dreams to be happening somewhere out there.

Life is a search for yourself.

Do what you like and do it honestly.

There are far too many people out there who take themselves too seriously.

All I can say is hold on, and prepare.

I applaud anyone who thinks I'm good-looking and invite them into my world.

There are possibilities that dreams are our little windows upon a parallel timeline.

I might be a dork, but I don't want to be a jerk.

When you see opportunities in your life, you've got to analyze, 'Why was that choice given to me?

The only reason in the world that I bought a computer was to look up UFO sites.

Dreams are things that could potentially be treating you as a pupil to teach you things so when you wake up, you'll be able to handle certain elements from those dreams in a better way.

If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.

They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.

I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be it's not art, it's expression.

I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things.

I think that people feel they know what love means, it's probably one of the most used words in the world but has the most completely different definitions from one person to another.

We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.

Whether it's at their job, or their family, whatever - everyone feels that they're stuck in some kind of struggle. The idea is how to find your way out of it.

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.

It's all success if it's what you need.

It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.

I just wanna see a UFO, really

I've been abducted and probed in the anus. On purpose.

Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.

In ten years I will become president of the United States Of America.

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.

I will eat anything Mexican - a sombrero, hacienda... anything. Theyve perfected the combo of bread items and the grill.

Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.

I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a piece of it that might sell.

I have to make music. If I don't do it, I go crazy.

I think that the needs in human life will change and grow and evolve. I do think that that the importance will always be grander than you would ever believe them to be.

I'm hoping that people should hopefully give me another chance to dream big and to deliver on those dreams.

I used to drink a lot of beer, but I was just getting fat as can be. Now that we've had a little success, I can afford to drink wine.

I'll eat a nugget of my own poop for 20 bucks. I'll pay you 20 bucks and I'll eat it.

If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!

I think I might get laid more...by my dad.

But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay.

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

I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

The first song I sent over was Up All Night. People say that sounds like Angels on a Blink record. Well, no - that's just me!

I would love to come to Auckland. That's a place I've been quite a lot with my band so I'm very much looking forward to it.