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Mark Hoppus
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 15
Guitarist
Musician
Record Producer
Singer
Songwriter
Ridgecrest
California
Mark Allan Hoppus
Markus Allan Hoppus
Jack Hoppus
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Punk
Inside
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The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.
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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.
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Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals.
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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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The past is only the future with the lights on
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Maybe people would be surprised to know that I listen to old Neil Diamond albums from time to time. The man rocks. I defy anyone to prove me wrong.
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We reserve the right to make fun of every single person on planet Earth.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
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I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.
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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.
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The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human
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All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.
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I really enjoy helping a band form their sounds and ideas from initial spark to completed album. Being a producer is different in that, at the end of the day, it is not my art. It's THEIR art, THEIR ideas, THEIR message.
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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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I don't stream or buy CDs pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.
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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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