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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.
Mark Hoppus
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Mark Hoppus
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 15
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Ridgecrest
California
Mark Allan Hoppus
Markus Allan Hoppus
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Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
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California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else.
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It usually happens spur of the moment, like when I broke up My Chemical Romance, it was just that day that I decided it was time for them to be done. And people were very upset about it so I have to choose my next victims carefully.
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I still feel like we're the underdogs, but I feel like people respect us now. People might not like our band or love our music, but I think people respect the fact that we've been doing this for many years and are still doing it and still able to play three giant New York City shows and have people come out.
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'Built This Pool' was an idea that I had for a song starting several years ago, and as we were in between takes of recording something, I was actually holding a guitar at the time, and I played this silly thing, and sang the lyrics to 'Built This Pool' kinda in the background.
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I don't think any of us felt like, Oh, we need to put joke songs on the record. If we found something funny, we would record it, and if we wanted to, we'd put it on the record. It's not really something we spent too much time agonizing over.
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Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.
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I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the world. Read books, watch movies, see art, see the world, meet new people.
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It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.
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What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics.
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It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't like to find stuff I do like.
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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 really a deliberation or a real introspective thing like, Are we going to joke on this one, are we not going to joke on this one? We just didn't feel like it on the untitled one, so we didn't.
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I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.
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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.
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I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about.
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I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.
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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
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There is nothing more awkward and more laughable than a naked dude with his wiener flopping.
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Vegetables....a waste of good plate space
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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.
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