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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

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

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I don't stream or buy CDs ... pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes. — Mark Hoppus

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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

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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. — Mark Hoppus

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Vegetables ... a waste of good plate space — Mark Hoppus

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'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. — Mark Hoppus

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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

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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

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Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation. — Mark Hoppus

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Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war. — Mark Hoppus

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'The White Album' is a record I can go back to time and time again, and always find something different that I never noticed or appreciated before. — Mark Hoppus

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It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters. — Mark Hoppus

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

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There is nothing more awkward and more laughable than a naked dude with his wiener flopping. — Mark Hoppus

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

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

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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. — Mark Hoppus

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

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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

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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

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

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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. — Mark Hoppus

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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

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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. — Mark Hoppus

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

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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. — Mark Hoppus

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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

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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

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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

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Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals. — Mark Hoppus

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

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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

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

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

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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. — Mark Hoppus

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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Never let anyone tell you how to live your life. — Mark Hoppus

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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

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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

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

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I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable. — Mark Hoppus

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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

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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

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

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It really expresses a man in pain. — Mark Hoppus

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I'm always asking friends what new music they're into, and I love showing people new talented artists. — Mark Hoppus

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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

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Thats not a place where I'm considered good-looking. — Mark Hoppus

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

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I would probably say, 'Don't worry so much about stuff as you grow up.' — Mark Hoppus

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It's hard to cover for someone who's disrespectful and ungrateful ... To say, 'I didn't quit the band' is just not true. It's disingenuous. — Mark Hoppus

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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

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

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There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed. — Mark Hoppus

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It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy. — Mark Hoppus

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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. — Mark Hoppus

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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. — Mark Hoppus

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Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project. — Mark Hoppus

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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

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

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The Beatles never get old. — Mark Hoppus

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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

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We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast. — Mark Hoppus

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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. — Mark Hoppus

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Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them. — Mark Hoppus

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

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

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Every single day that you walk outside your house is something new and different and exciting. — Mark Hoppus

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

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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. — Mark Hoppus

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All the really pretty girls get pregnant. — Mark Hoppus

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Farts and poop are still funny and will always be funny. — Mark Hoppus

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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

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I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down. — Mark Hoppus

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

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

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

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

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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 ... ' — Mark Hoppus

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

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A real punk is punk on the inside. — Mark Hoppus

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly. — Mark Hoppus

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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

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

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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

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I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80. — Mark Hoppus

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