Mark Hoppus
A lot of guys like to fantasize about having sex with 2 girls at the same time... I like to fantasize about having sex with the same girl twice, thank you.Collection: Girl
Hard work, studying and perseverance will get you no where in life......it's all about kissing assCollection: Perseverance
Make yourself do something stupid so when you really do something stupid you won't feel so badCollection: Stupid
I feel like anyone can be a kid forever as long as you have that mindset and attitude towards the world.Collection: Attitude
It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time.Collection: Band
Look at me... look at me... I need the attention, oooh I'm punk rock I got some tattoos, I got some piercings. If I'm gonna get some piercings then I want everyone to see it...I don't need to advertise my punkness. A real punk doesn't need to show off...Its like a Karate man... the Karate man bleed on the inside. A real punk is punk on the inside.Collection: Tattoo
Vegetables....a waste of good plate spaceCollection: Vegetables
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.Collection: Country
Yeah, I actually do know where I am.Collection: Yeah
If something is wrong with you, hate someone else for itCollection: Hate
Farts and poop are still funny and will always be funny.Collection: Poop
Thats not a place where I'm considered good-looking.Collection: Funny
Ideally, each week, I'd like to have rad, intelligent, creative, funny guests with different takes on the world of music. I will ask them all what their favorite blink-182 song is, and what they like best about me as a person.Collection: Song
When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Men
Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Ideas
I really enjoy helping a band form their sounds and ideas from initial spark to completed album. Being a producer is different in that, at the end of the day, it is not my art. It's THEIR art, THEIR ideas, THEIR message.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Special
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.Collection: Thinking
I don't think any of us felt like, "Oh, we need to put joke songs on the record." If we found something funny, we would record it, and if we wanted to, we'd put it on the record. It's not really something we spent too much time agonizing over.Collection: Song
What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Song
We worked very hard on that untitled record to do something different and that we were proud of and to try a bunch of different ideas. It was like this gigantic musical laboratory that we were going to every day. I love that record, I think that's one of the high watermarks of us as a band.Collection: Thinking
Then when we did the untitled record, we just didn't feel like putting joke stuff on it, so we didn't. It wasn't really a deliberation or a real introspective thing like, "Are we going to joke on this one, are we not going to joke on this one?" We just didn't feel like it on the untitled one, so we didn't.Collection: Real
I still feel like we're the underdogs, but I feel like people respect us now. People might not like our band or love our music, but I think people respect the fact that we've been doing this for many years and are still doing it and still able to play three giant New York City shows and have people come out.Collection: Thinking
Every 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.Collection: Tattoo
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.Collection: Song
I 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.Collection: School
There'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.Collection: Dream
California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else.Collection: Beach
He [Patrick Stump] is been a friend of ours for a long time, and when we were talking about working with different producers and songwriters for the record, Patrick's name came up. We were excited to work with him - he's a very gifted lyricist and songwriter, and a really cool guy and it was a pleasure to work with him in the studio.Collection: Talking
I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California, and I think that's what this album ['California']feels like - there's endless hope and optimism but there's also a darker side.Collection: Dark
I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.Collection: People
No matter what, I think people are trying to better themselves, or to better their situation, or to find something new and exciting.Collection: Thinking
And anyone that calls me a sell-out is just jealous.Collection: Jealous
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...'Collection: People
When I was growing up skateboarding, a bunch of friends and I went to this thrift store and as we were leaving I jumped up and passed gas in my friend's face. I turned around and it wasn't my friend, it was this nice old lady who was just walking out of the store. That was probably one of the more awkward apologies I've had to make in my life.Collection: Growing Up
I think people take Blink-128 more seriously now than they did before. And it's largely our fault because we called our records Enema of the State and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. We were always kind of the underdogs, especially critically. People wrote us off as this joke band. But the people who listened to Blink knew that we were silly and whatever, but we wrote songs about divorce and suicide and depression. Those kids that were listening to Blink are now the ones that control all these outlets that used to just write us off.Collection: Suicide
If your like me, you like to wait till your parents are having sex and walk in on them and act like its an accident, and then ask if you can join in.Collection: Sex
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 parentCollection: Parent
I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about.Collection: Artist
I think when people are jumping on top of each other's ideas, it elevates it a lot more than me going into the studio and working on something all by myself for a while.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Son
'Built This Pool' was an idea that I had for a song starting several years ago, and as we were in between takes of recording something, I was actually holding a guitar at the time, and I played this silly thing, and sang the lyrics to 'Built This Pool' kinda in the background.Collection: Song
Every single day that you walk outside your house is something new and different and exciting.Collection: House
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.Collection: Artist
Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Thinking