164 Quotes by Mark Hoppus

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music you listened to at the time. When people are down, they listen to music that commiserates that emotion. When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs.