Quotes from Mark Hoppus

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.

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.

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

It really expresses a man in pain.

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

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

I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the world. Read books, watch movies, see art, see the world, meet new people.

The process of introducing people to new music is amazing. It's a gift. One of the best parts of any day is when someone says, 'Hey, check out this new band...'

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.

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

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

Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.

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

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

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.

Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are.

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.

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

All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.

I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.

All the really pretty girls get pregnant.

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

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

Never let anyone tell you how to live your life.