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 More Quotes by Mark Hoppus More Quotes From Mark Hoppus 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 creativity artist believe It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time. Mark Hoppus apologizing band feels I think age is just a stupid number. Mark Hoppus stupid numbers thinking 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 mexican wife son 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 couple struggle opportunity I'm always asking friends what new music they're into, and I love showing people new talented artists. Mark Hoppus artist asking people I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create. Mark Hoppus artist should believe 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 mp3 artist hands 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 trying years thinking I don't have a girlfriend, I have a dog. Mark Hoppus girlfriend dog Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals. Mark Hoppus circumcision left way I still feel like we're the underdogs, but I feel like people respect us now. People might not like our band or love our music, but I think people respect the fact that we've been doing this for many years and are still doing it and still able to play three giant New York City shows and have people come out. Mark Hoppus underdog people thinking Then when we did the untitled record, we just didn't feel like putting joke stuff on it, so we didn't. It wasn't really a deliberation or a real introspective thing like, "Are we going to joke on this one, are we not going to joke on this one?" We just didn't feel like it on the untitled one, so we didn't. Mark Hoppus introspective jokes real We worked very hard on that untitled record to do something different and that we were proud of and to try a bunch of different ideas. It was like this gigantic musical laboratory that we were going to every day. I love that record, I think that's one of the high watermarks of us as a band. Mark Hoppus musical trying thinking I think when people are jumping on top of each other's ideas, it elevates it a lot more than me going into the studio and working on something all by myself for a while. Mark Hoppus people thinking I think people take Blink-128 more seriously now than they did before. And it's largely our fault because we called our records Enema of the State and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. We were always kind of the underdogs, especially critically. People wrote us off as this joke band. But the people who listened to Blink knew that we were silly and whatever, but we wrote songs about divorce and suicide and depression. Those kids that were listening to Blink are now the ones that control all these outlets that used to just write us off. Mark Hoppus suicide silly song 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. Mark Hoppus jokes song thinking What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics. Mark Hoppus catchy dark writing There was a great push and pull of what Blink-128 should sound like all the time. Travis Barker comes from a different background than I do, and Tom DeLonge comes from a different background than either of us in terms of what we write and what we think a song should be. Tom pushes me out of a box that I put myself in. Mark Hoppus writing song thinking Every one of those old songs like "What's My Age Again?" and "All the Small Things" is like a tattoo or a scrapbook or an old photograph. There are just songs that define certain moments in your life. Everyone has a song that got them through a bad breakup or they put on and it made them feel like they wanted to go out and kick the world's ass with their friends on a weekend. Those songs still feel like that to me. Mark Hoppus tattoo breakup song
