Zitat des Tages von Mark Hoppus:
My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.
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.
'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.
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.
All the really pretty girls get pregnant.
I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.
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.
If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.
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.
If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.
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.
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.
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.
There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.
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.
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.
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.
It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.
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.
Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.
I dated the same girl all through high school.
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.
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.
I don't stream or buy CDs... pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.
I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.
During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.
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.
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.
