Mark Hoppus Quotes

No matter what, I think people are trying to better themselves, or to better their situation, or to find something new and exciting.

Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they'd still be in the boat.

I dated the same girl all through high school.

I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better.

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

The past is only the future with the lights on

We never really set out to talk about California on the album ['California'], it was something that we noticed that was happening about three-quarters of the way through the recording process. We were looking at which songs we thought would make the record and we realised that there was this theme coming through. I think it's just a product of being in California for as long as I have.

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.

As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.

Every single day that you walk outside your house is something new and different and exciting.

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

There was a great push and pull of what Blink-128 should sound like all the time. Travis Barker comes from a different background than I do, and Tom DeLonge comes from a different background than either of us in terms of what we write and what we think a song should be. Tom pushes me out of a box that I put myself in.

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

A real punk is punk on the inside.

I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.

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

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.

Never let anyone tell you how to live your life.

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.

I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.

From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.

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.