Mark Hoppus Quotes

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.

The past is only the future with the lights on

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A real punk is punk on the inside.

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

Never let anyone tell you how to live your life.

If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Yeah, I actually do know where I am.

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

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

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.

Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are.

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.

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.

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 think age is just a stupid number.

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

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

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

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.

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

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...'

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.

Too many bands practice in their garage, play a couple of shows locally, and expect opportunities to appear from the sky. Bands have to push, work, grind, and struggle to make it happen on their own.

All the really pretty girls get pregnant.

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

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.

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

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

I dated the same girl all through high school.

Now everything is available at the push of a button, and that thrill of the search is gone. With vinyl albums and special edition releases, I feel like that's coming back.

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

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 like the beaches in Orange County the best. I think Orange County has great beaches. Everything from Dana Point to Newport to Laguna; all over the place.

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.

Getting to meet other artists that I admire is one of the best parts of my job. I don't know if I'd say "star struck" as much as excited to hear other peoples' ideas.

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

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