164 Quotes by Mark Hoppus

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.

Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn’t support that team, it’s their job to ruin you, to tell you you’re an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.

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

The strongest human emotion is probably love. I think it’s universal. I think that across language and country and time and everything else, probably love.

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 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.

From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you’re in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.

Ideally, each week, I’d like to have rad, intelligent, creative, funny guests with different takes on the world of music. I will ask them all what their favorite blink-182 song is, and what they like best about me as a person.

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.