Words matter. These are the best Mark Hoppus Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.
If we tried to write about politics, you’d realize that we’re all a bunch of idiots.
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.
There’s no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it’s destroyed.
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.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
Make yourself look really stupid so you don’t feel bad doing something a little stupid.
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 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.
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 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.
During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.
It’s a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.
‘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.
Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
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.
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.
I dated the same girl all through high school.
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.
If at first you don’t succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.
I don’t stream or buy CDs… pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.
Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I’m not advocating promiscuity.
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.
