Tom DeLonge Quotes

Im not gay, but the man in my bed last night was.

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

Do what you like and do it honestly.

All I can say is hold on, and prepare ...

I write in a very melodic way, so that will never leave. I think my records will always tend to be approachable.

They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.

I don't get boy bands these days. Thye don't write their own songs and everything is choreographed from their dance moves to how they have sex with each other after the show.

The labels can't do anything for a band anymore - they're stuck and they have no money and they're just holding onto contracts that have existed from a time where there were resources.

But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.

I applaud anyone who thinks I'm good-looking and invite them into my world

I think that people feel they know what love means, it's probably one of the most used words in the world but has the most completely different definitions from one person to another.

I've been abducted and probed in the anus.
On purpose.

The first song I sent over was Up All Night. People say that sounds like Angels on a Blink record. Well, no - that's just me!

I think that one of the reasons that we chose the word love as the subject is because your human connection and how you affect everybody around you, you'll only understand the gravity of that as you pass later on in life. I think as artists it's our ability to communicate that in certain ways.

There are possibilities that dreams are our little windows upon a parallel timeline.

I think there are a lot of different things that dreams do for the individual and they're fascinating because it's not totally known what they do, but we have some science that is opening the door to a new world as we speak.

I will eat anything Mexican - a sombrero, hacienda ... anything. They've perfected the combo of bread items and the grill.

I've never been a jam-band sort of musician.

I'm not gay, a lotta people think I'm gay. I have a girlfriend. She thinks I'm gay.

Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music.

Maybe I do wanna become a woman, so what is the crime in that?

I'm hoping that people should hopefully give me another chance to dream big and to deliver on those dreams.

I have to be able to stick to very dedicated times to work on things, do exactly as I say I'm going to do, show up when I say I'm going to show up and focus that's the only way I've been able to pull off everything last year but I'm hoping I'll never have to do that again, it's a hell of a lot of work that's for sure.

I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore.

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay.

The compass represents spirituality, no end and no beginning ... the ruler represents 'tangible evidence' ... a measurable event ... both coming together shall represent a Human Being ... the intersection of life and consciousness ...

I just wanna see a UFO, really

The Angels shows are really intense. We play for a couple hours at a time. They're very theatrical and full of audience interaction and emotion. I've seen a lot of people crying and stuff. It's a little bit like church, but it's very secular.

I'm a little left of center, for sure, with Angels & Airwaves. But even when I get really weird, it's not that weird. It's not like some obscure Sonic Youth record or something. We don't take it quite that far. But what we do like are crescendos, and we do like when a song catches you off guard and it gives you the chills up and down your arms.

I might be a dork, but I don't want to be a jerk.

I want you to know never have a bad day. there's never bad things that happen there is merely changes in direction on the road of live. You never come to a dead end just turn left or right you know and it's gonna be good. You'll still get where you want. You're going down the hallway, you're just gonna bounce of the walls a little bit.
The law of attraction, just like the law of gravity. You can't out-will the law of gravity and you cannot out-will the law of attraction. it's a real physical law, it?

Science has determent really exists the more you think about beautiful amazing things the reality is those things are gonna come right to you. The more you think about the things you fear, the more you start to think about things you don't want to happen, or you're scared of or whatever those things are gonna come to you.because you're dwelling on them, even if you're dwelling on the fact that you're scared of them, it's just putting those images out those frequencies from your brain,

Whenever you start to feel scared or fucked up, or it's a bad day , instantly think about great things, successful things, beautiful things, helping people,going out there and living the life that you want to. if it's snowing go outside and think about sun, if you're out of money go outside and think of being a billionaire, if you're horny go out there and think about..me, on top of you, completely naked, sweating just a little bit, and doing all the things to your body

Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.

The only reason in the world that I bought a computer was to look up UFO sites.

Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.

I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things.

When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.

Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur ... that's all me.

I think I might get laid more ... by my dad.

When you work with a major label they create their own message for you and a lot of the time that works great, or at least it did back in the 90's but now it doesn't work, so I think as an artist if you learn your own business, like anybody would when they want to start a little restaurant - they'd figure it out and then build it and they work hard - then it could be your own little business that you grew to as big as you want it to be but you had much more control with how to communicate it and how it's cared for.

We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists

I'm sick of being known as the sexy guy that writes great songs.

You can do anything you want. And you can be anything you want. And you can feel anything you want. But there's only one thing you need to do, and that is: have the slightest vision to see it. Because if you can't see it happening, then it will never happen

I would lose straight away if I went on 'American Idol.'

'Love' has that Kubrick tonality to it, but this is not a Stanley Kubrick movie - there will never be another. At the same time, 'Love' has a modern feel. For example: In one scene, these astronauts go through a wormhole sequence, and you feel like you're being slapped around inside your head by a sonic boom.

My company created a platform called Modlife, this prepackaged website that runs an artist's website.

I'll eat a nugget of my own poop for 20 bucks. I'll pay you 20 bucks and I'll eat it.

I would love to come to Auckland. That's a place I've been quite a lot with my band so I'm very much looking forward to it.

I think that the needs in human life will change and grow and evolve. I do think that that the importance will always be grander than you would ever believe them to be.

Angels and Airwaves shows are like an ascension to Heaven.

Corporations were society's cockroaches: they always survived.

If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!

Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.

If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.

Spending so much time on the road, I get to fart all the time. Then when it's, like, Thanksgiving dinner and I'm sitting with my grandmother, I can't fart for, like, two hours.

It's all success if it's what you need.

I think dreams hold a lot of meaning. I believe that if the universe is truthfully infinite then there are infinite possibilities for dreams to be happening somewhere out there.

There are lots of things that I'm always pulling inspiration from.

I was kicked out of middle school a few times. This guy who was kind of a d*** and a bully got hit by a car. I jumped up and went, YEAH Apparently that wasnt cool with some people cause I got kicked out.

People are different when they're 30 than they are when they're 16.

You've got to not only love yourself for who you are with all your mistakes, but you've got to love the world for what it can bring you if you have the right attitude