Mark Hoppus Quotes

You guys are lucky, cuz in Europe, like you can show boobs on TV and like in magazines and what not. We're Americans so the slightest, the slightest glimpse of a nipple will ... ~ Mark Hoppus

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. ~ Mark Hoppus

It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time, ~ Mark Hoppus

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. ~ Mark Hoppus

We reserve the right to make fun of every single person on planet Earth. ~ Mark Hoppus

I think age is just a stupid number. ~ Mark Hoppus

Too many bands practice in their garage, play a couple of shows locally, and expect opportunities to appear from the sky. Bands have to push, work, grind, and struggle to make it happen on their own. ~ Mark Hoppus

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. ~ Mark Hoppus

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

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. ~ Mark Hoppus

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. ~ Mark Hoppus

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. ~ Mark Hoppus

I don't have a girlfriend, I have a dog. ~ Mark Hoppus

The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human ~ Mark Hoppus

It really expresses a man in pain. ~ Mark Hoppus

Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal. ~ Mark Hoppus

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music you listened to at the time. When people are down, they listen to music that commiserates that emotion. When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. ~ Mark Hoppus

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. ~ Mark Hoppus

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. ~ Mark Hoppus

I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create. ~ Mark Hoppus

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

All the really pretty girls get pregnant. ~ Mark Hoppus

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. ~ Mark Hoppus

I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about. ~ Mark Hoppus

Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity. ~ Mark Hoppus

I like the beaches in Orange County the best. I think Orange County has great beaches. Everything from Dana Point to Newport to Laguna; all over the place. ~ Mark Hoppus

I feel like anyone can be a kid forever as long as you have that mindset and attitude towards the world. ~ Mark Hoppus

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience. ~ Mark Hoppus

During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer. ~ Mark Hoppus

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. ~ Mark Hoppus

I dated the same girl all through high school. ~ Mark Hoppus

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. ~ 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. ~ Mark Hoppus

Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid. ~ Mark Hoppus

If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots. ~ Mark Hoppus

Hard work, studying and perseverance will get you no where in life ... it's all about kissing ass ~ Mark Hoppus

Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs. ~ Mark Hoppus

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. ~ Mark Hoppus

Getting to meet other artists that I admire is one of the best parts of my job. I don't know if I'd say 'star struck' as much as excited to hear other peoples' ideas. ~ Mark Hoppus

Even though it was January, in Los Angeles it was beautiful and sunny and the blue skies were out and it was hot everyday, so I think it was just a product of our environment. And 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. But 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. ~ Mark Hoppus

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. ~ Mark Hoppus

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. ~ Mark Hoppus

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. ~ Mark Hoppus

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

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. ~ Mark Hoppus

Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself. ~ Mark Hoppus

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. ~ Mark Hoppus

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. ~ Mark Hoppus

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire. ~ Mark Hoppus

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. ~ Mark Hoppus

Life's too short to sit through songs you don't love. ~ Mark Hoppus

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. ~ Mark Hoppus

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. ~ Mark Hoppus

If something is wrong with you, hate someone else for it ~ Mark Hoppus

Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are. ~ Mark Hoppus

I'm probably the sexiest and best in bed. Even if I'm by myself in bed. ~ Blink-182

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities. ~ Mark Hoppus

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad. ~ Mark Hoppus

I hate it when people try to act cool. I hope they all get gonorreah and die. ~ Mark Hoppus

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. ~ Mark Hoppus

Make yourself do something stupid so when you really do something stupid you won't feel so bad ~ Mark Hoppus

The Beatles never get old. ~ Mark Hoppus

NO greater love has a husband for his wife than to watch a 2hr documentary on an elite ballet competition. ~ Mark Venturini

I love helping entrepreneurs. It's something I really have fun doing. It's like planting a little seed and watching it grow. Any time I can help somebody, that's a good thing. It's fun. If I get to make some money at it, it's even better. ~ Mark Cuban

Love is at the root of a positive attitude. ~ Mark Andrew Poe

A reader is a voyager, an armchair adventurer, travelling to different times, places, inhabiting different minds and worlds. What fun. ~ Mark Rubinstein

I've always slightly preferred Spade to Marlowe, probably just because I thought Hammett was cooler than Chandler. He was leftwing, his name shortened to Dash rather than Ray, and he didn't smoke a pipe or like cats. ~ Mark Billingham

My point being, what if my attacks are enterly unrelated attributable in fact to something entirely else, perhaps for instance just warning shocks brought on by my own crumbling biology, tiny flakes of unknown chemical origin already burning holes through the fabric of my mind, dismantling memories, undoing even the strongest powers of imagination and reason?
how then do you fly from that path? ~ Mark Z. Danielewski

When you are lying in bed angry with your backs turned towards each other, imagine Satan sleeping in the space between you. ~ Mark Driscoll

You could probably go all the way back to the first books. I bet people said 'why should you read when you could talk to other people?' The point of reading is that you get to deeply immerse yourself in a person's perspective. Right? Same thing with newspapers or phones or TVs. Soon it will be VR, I bet. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

For states in demographic decline with ever more lavish social programs, the question is a simple one: Can they get real? Can they grow up before they grow old? If not, then they'll end their days in societies dominated by people with a very different worldview. ~ Mark Steyn

I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation. ~ Mark Burnett

It takes just about the same amount of time to be a nice guy as it does to be a jerk. ~ Mark Sanborn

Because, visible through the slashed covers, the bone-deep wounds that crisscross the couple's bodies pump blood. Some of the flaps of skin resulting from glancing blows are like gills, breathing. Yet even as the cries die away, he carries on. ~ Mark Kirkbride

Schizophrenia's a reasonable reaction to an unreasonable society." It's great on paper. Poetic, noble, etc. But if you happen to be a schizophrenic, it's got some not-so-cheery implications… One of R.D.'s worst sins is how blithely and misleadingly he glides over the suffering involved… Pulling off a revolution and ushering in a new era in which truth and beauty reign triumphant seems unlikely when you're having trouble brushing your teeth or even walking. ~ Mark Vonnegut

We live among magnificent opportunities cleverly disguised as hopeless situations. ~ Mark Boyd

The Latino community, they're some of the most loyal fans on the planet. ~ Mark Sanchez

We're the beneficiaries of prayers we know nothing about. God was working long before we arrived on the scene and He's using us to set up the next generation.

We tend to think right here, right now.

God is thinking nations and generations.

We have no idea how our lives are going to alter the course of history downstream, but there is a divine domino effect for every decision we make. Don't underestimate the potential impact of obeying God's prompts. Those are the whispers that will echo for all eternity! ~ Mark Batterson

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable. ~ Mark Twain

And I don't care how scientific you think you are or how many letters you have after your name, you're one of us, bucko. You're a crazy Feeling Brain-piloted meat robot just like the rest of us. ~ Mark Manson

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test. ~ Kinky Friedman

When I was at Valencia my wife said that we would win the league. She was right and to mark the occasion she asked me for a new watch. I bought her the watch, but then she said that we would win the UEFA Cup and that when we did she wanted another watch. Now she says that we will win the Champions League and that she will want an even more expensive watch. My wife has a lot of confidence and a lot of watches. ~ Rafael Benitez

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. ~ Arthur Koestler

One who knows the Mississippi will promptly aver - not aloud, but to himself - that ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world at their back, cannot tame that lawless stream, cannot curb it or confine it, cannot say to it, Go here, or Go there, and make it obey; cannot save a shore which it has sentenced; cannot bar its path with an obstruction which it will not tear down, dance over, and laugh at. ~ Mark Twain

The "covenant" language in the Bible is not cold, legal language, but relational language. ~ Mark Dever

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words. ~ Mark Twain

Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules. ~ Mark Knopfler

It has been reported that I was seriously ill
it was another man; dying
it was another man; dead
the other man again ... As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk. ~ Mark Twain

Tom's army won a great victory, after a long and hard-fought battle. Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line and marched away, and Tom turned homeward alone. ~ Mark Twain

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist. ~ Ellen Terry

Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. ~ Mark Twain

nearly all of us have experienced similar results following the Conventional Wisdom of our time: weight-loss efforts doomed to a 96 percent long-term failure rate, workout programs leading to fatigue and increased appetites for sugar, and medications that exacerbate the underlying cause of pain while barely alleviating symptoms (not to mention the unpleasant side effects). ~ Mark Sisson

Providing working Minnesotans with at least seven days of paid sick leave every year is the right thing to do to. It benefits our families and helps our businesses become more worker friendly and family friendly. ~ Mark Dayton

Auctions are a venerable selling institution, in use since the time of Herodotus. The word comes from the Latin auctus, meaning to increase. An obscure term for auction, one guaranteed to impress friends and neighbors, is the Latin word subhastare. It is the conjunction of sub, meaning "under," and hasta, meaning "spear." After a military victory, a Roman soldier would plant his spear in the ground to mark the location of his spoils. Later, he would put these goods up for sale by auction.
¹The highest bidder was called the emptor, whence the term caveat emptor. ~ Rakesh V. Vohra