164 Quotes by Mark Hoppus

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

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 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.

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.

I would probably say, ‘Don’t worry so much about stuff as you grow up.’

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.

I’ve learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

Thats not a place where I’m considered good-looking.

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.