Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal. — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs. — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy. — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
I don't stream or buy CDs pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes. — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
Too many bands practice in their garage, play a couple of shows locally, and expect opportunities to appear from the sky. Bands… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience. — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed. — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
I grew up the biggest fan of the Cure. Knew every lyric, had every album, B-side, single, poster, everything. Then cut to… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
Look at me... look at me... I need the attention, oooh I'm punk rock I got some tattoos, I got some piercings.… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
I don't think any of us felt like, "Oh, we need to put joke songs on the record." If we found something… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
I still feel like we're the underdogs, but I feel like people respect us now. People might not like our band or… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
It usually happens spur of the moment, like when I broke up My Chemical Romance, it was just that day that I… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
'Built This Pool' was an idea that I had for a song starting several years ago, and as we were in between… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
We never really set out to talk about California on the album ['California'], it was something that we noticed that was happening… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
I think that breaking into the mainstream - it was just the right cycle of music for us in Blink-182. People were… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
Every one of those old songs like "What's My Age Again?" and "All the Small Things" is like a tattoo or a… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
I think people take Blink-128 more seriously now than they did before. And it's largely our fault because we called our records… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
We worked very hard on that untitled record to do something different and that we were proud of and to try a… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
There was a great push and pull of what Blink-128 should sound like all the time. Travis Barker comes from a different… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
Ideally, each week, I'd like to have rad, intelligent, creative, funny guests with different takes on the world of music. I will… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project. — Mark Hoppus Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share
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… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share
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.… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share
Make yourself do something stupid so when you really do something stupid you won't feel so bad — Mark Hoppus Copy Share
I feel like anyone can be a kid forever as long as you have that mindset and attitude towards the world. — Mark Hoppus Copy Share
Now everything is available at the push of a button, and that thrill of the search is gone. With vinyl albums and special edition… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share
When I was growing up skateboarding, a bunch of friends and I went to this thrift store and as we were leaving I jumped… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share
![“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…” quote by Mark Hoppus](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6ff/mark-hoppus-3737_albums_we-never-really-set-out-to-talk-about-ca_1444994.jpg)
