Quotes from Mark Hoppus

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

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.

Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

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

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.

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

We really try not to spend too much time thinking about what we're supposed to be a punk band, or whatever. We do the exact same thing today that we been doing for years and years and years.

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

I dated the same girl all through high school.

'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.

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

Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul.

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.

The strongest human emotion is probably love. I think it's universal. I think that across language and country and time and everything else, probably love.

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.

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

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

I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.

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.

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

The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again.

The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.

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

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.