Mark Hoppus

I don't have a girlfriend, I have a dog.

— Mark Hoppus

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

— Mark Hoppus

I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.

— Mark Hoppus

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

— Mark Hoppus

What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics.

— Mark Hoppus

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

— Mark Hoppus

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

— Mark Hoppus

And anyone that calls me a sell-out is just jealous.

— Mark Hoppus

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

— Mark Hoppus

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

— Mark Hoppus

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

We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like…

— Mark Hoppus

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

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…

— Mark Hoppus

I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the…

— Mark Hoppus

Now everything is available at the push of a button, and that thrill of the search is gone. With vinyl albums and…

— Mark Hoppus

Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to…

— Mark Hoppus

California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think…

— Mark Hoppus

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

He [Patrick Stump] is been a friend of ours for a long time, and when we were talking about working with different…

— Mark Hoppus

All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he…

— Mark Hoppus

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

I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of…

— Mark Hoppus

When I was growing up skateboarding, a bunch of friends and I went to this thrift store and as we were leaving…

— Mark Hoppus

I think that breaking into the mainstream - it was just the right cycle of music for us in Blink-182. People were…

— Mark Hoppus

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

— Mark Hoppus

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

— Mark Hoppus

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

— Mark Hoppus

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

— Mark Hoppus

If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.

— Mark Hoppus

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

— Mark Hoppus

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.

— Mark Hoppus

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

— Mark Hoppus

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

— Mark Hoppus

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

— Mark Hoppus

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

— Mark Hoppus

I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California.

— Mark Hoppus

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

— Mark Hoppus

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

— Mark Hoppus

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

— Mark Hoppus