It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.
Mark HoppusThere's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.
Mark HoppusI liked seventeen-year-old me, I was happy when I was seventeen. I was this troubled goth kid that wore eyeliner and make-up to school and listened to punk-rock music and I loved my friends and I started to make music - I like seventeen-year-old me.
Mark HoppusEvery one of those old songs like "What's My Age Again?" and "All the Small Things" is like a tattoo or a scrapbook or an old photograph. There are just songs that define certain moments in your life. Everyone has a song that got them through a bad breakup or they put on and it made them feel like they wanted to go out and kick the world's ass with their friends on a weekend. Those songs still feel like that to me.
Mark Hoppus