Mark Allan Hoppus (born March 15, 1972) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and television personality best known as the bassist and co-lead vocalist for the pop punk band Blink-182.
I don't stream or buy CDs pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.
Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.
There is nothing more awkward and more laughable than a naked dude with his wiener flopping.
Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.
The Beatles never get old.
If something is wrong with you, hate someone else for it
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.
Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.
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.
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.
I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.
I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A real punk is punk on the inside.
Yeah, I actually do know where I am.
I like to get Honey Combs, and Apple Jax, and Captain Crunch Berries and mix them all together, but I'm freak and I use water instead of milk.
Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.