Tom Delonge Quotes

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

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. ~ Tom DeLonge

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

I think I might get laid more ... by my dad. ~ Tom DeLonge

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

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. ~ Tom DeLonge

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

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

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. ~ Tom DeLonge

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. ~ Tom DeLonge

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

Do what you like and do it honestly. ~ Tom DeLonge

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

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

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. ~ Tom DeLonge

It's all success if it's what you need. ~ Tom DeLonge

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. ~ Tom DeLonge

'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. ~ Tom DeLonge

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. ~ Tom DeLonge

People are different when they're 30 than they are when they're 16. ~ Tom DeLonge

Angels and Airwaves shows are like an ascension to Heaven. ~ Tom DeLonge

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 ... ~ Tom DeLonge

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

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. ~ Tom DeLonge

Corporations were society's cockroaches: they always survived. ~ Tom DeLonge

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

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. ~ Tom DeLonge

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

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

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 ~ Tom DeLonge

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Tom DeLonge

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

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. ~ Tom DeLonge

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. ~ Tom DeLonge

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. ~ Tom DeLonge

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

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

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

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 ~ Tom DeLonge

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

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! ~ Tom DeLonge

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 ~ Tom DeLonge

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. ~ Tom DeLonge

He was surrounded by love, and he used that power to create. ~ Suzanne Young

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. ~ Tom DeLonge

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

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. ~ Tom DeLonge

I just wanna see a UFO, really ~ Tom DeLonge

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

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

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. ~ Tom DeLonge

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

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. ~ Tom DeLonge

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

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

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

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 ~ Tom DeLonge

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. ~ Tom DeLonge

All I can say is hold on, and prepare ... ~ Tom DeLonge

I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good. ~ Ansel Elgort

Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are long lives. One only has to think of the example of the tortoise for proof of this theory from the animal world. ~ Tom Hodgkinson

Tom and I didn't have a problem with the height differential but Paramount did, so we tried to hide it. ~ Kelly McGillis

My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notion of one's youth that somehow comes back but is gone, a man of my age connecting to that timing of life. ~ Tom Courtenay

Muslim immigrants like himself encounter prejudice here [in U.S.] but also find political and religious freedom. ~ Tom Gjelten

Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest. ~ Tom Glazer

Times were changing in the world of id. They had finally fired Jason, narrowing the group to Carmack, Romero, Adrian, and Tom. But something else was in the air. The Reagan-Bush era was finally coming to a close and a new spirit rising. It began in Seattle, where a sloppily dressed grunge rock trio called Nirvana ousted Michael Jackson from the top of the pop charts with their album Nevermind. Soon grunge and hip-hop were dominating the world with more brutal and honest views. Id was braced to do for games what those artists had done for music: overthrow the status quo. Games until this point had been ruled by their own equivalent of pop, in the form of Mario and Pac-Man. Unlike music, the software industry had never experienced anything as rebellious as Wolfenstein 3-D. The ~ David Kushner

Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice. ~ Tom Wolfe

All right, sweetheart; here's your last question, and it's a real challenge, so don't let yourself get distracted by these jealous women. To make sure all twelve of our future children are going to be legitimate, what New York City football team did Joe Namath play for?"

Gracie's face fell. Lord. Any fool should know the answer to this one. New York City... What football team was from New York City? Her expression brightened. "The New York City YANKEES!"

A roar of laughter went up from the crowd, accompanied by more than a few loud groans. Bobby Tom silenced them all with a glare. At the same time, the glitter in his eyes dared any of them to contradict her. When he was certain everyone understood the message, he turned back to Gracie and gathered her into his arms. With a tender look and a gentle brush of his lips, he said "Exactly right, sweetheart. I had no idea you knew so much about football"

And that was how every last person in Telarosa, Texas, came to understand that Bobby Tom Denton had finally and forever fallen head over heels in love. ~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

And this letter threatened change, didn't it? It was a threat, and he might have to do something about the threat. That meant doing something about the man behind it. It had happened before. It could happen again, he decided. Andropov would not live long enough to learn that in considering this action, he would set in motion the demise of his own country. ~ Tom Clancy

It might sound a small thing, but if you want to get Tom Cruise into your movie, without a track record or without those agents knowing you, it's almost impossible. Now I can get through to pretty much anyone I want. Of course, 90 per cent of the time they still say no. ~ Eric Fellner

We all have negative thoughts. They are impossible to avoid. But ongoing negative thoughts...That's a choice. ~ Tom Cunningham

Nothing changes without blood flowing. ~ Tom Metzger

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician. ~ Tom Rath

I once believed soft, warm, beautiful things could never flourish in an environment of hard concrete and cold, dark bricks. ~ Tom Winton

Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they? ~ Tom Clancy

I want people to hear the honesty in my singing, and that I'm not hiding behind anything. It's raw. It's not for any arrogance or ego. It's just pure feelings. ~ Tom Odell

Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball. ~ Tom Hanks

I'm Here All Weak might be the strangest comedy album I have ever heard. But I've listened twice, which is more than I listen to 90 percent of all comedy albums, so I think I love it? ~ Tom Scharpling

There's no such thing as security in this life sweetheart, and the sooner you accept that fact, the better off you'll be. The person who strives for security will never be free. The person who believes she's found security will never reach paradise. What she mistakes for security is purgatory. You know what purgatory is, Gwendolyn? It's the waiting room, it's the lobby. Not only does she have the wrong libretto, she's stuck in the lobby where she can't see the show. ~ Tom Robbins

I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham Roumieu, Tom Gauld, and Renee French. ~ Matthea Harvey

A group of us are going to do something. ~ Tom Burnett

Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident ... you know you have to do something about it because you know you're the only one that can really help. ~ Tom Cruise

Actors, we like our little cups of cappuccino and our personal umbrella-holders. Poker players, they've gotta be a little bit tougher. ~ Tom Everett Scott

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do ... ' Yeah, that's what I look for. ~ Tom Hanks

I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment. ~ Tom Scholz

Having fewer unhealthy days and, in turn, more days when you have the energy to get things done is probably the global constant through which businesses and individuals can think about the quantifiable upside of increasing wellbeing. ~ Tom Rath

Tom Brady says he wants to give the truck he was given as the Super Bowl MVP to the guy who won the Super Bowl for the Patriots. So Brady's giving his truck toSeahawks coach Pete Carroll. ~ Conan O'Brien

We have to have genius creative thoughts precisely four times a year and on exact dates. I actually write them on my calendar. I write, 'Friday, Nov. 8. Three o'clock. Have a genius creative idea.' ~ Tom Ford

'Can you imagine, 30 years ago, saying nobody will make coffee at home?' Nancy McGuckin, a travel researcher in Washington, D.C. ~ Tom Vanderbilt