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The past is only the future with the lights on

Mark Hoppus

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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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If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.
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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 hard to cover for someone who's disrespectful and ungrateful...To say, 'I didn't quit the band' is just not true. It's disingenuous.
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The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.
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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.
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Never let anyone tell you how to live your life.
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I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.
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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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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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I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.
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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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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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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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A lot of guys like to fantasize about having sex with 2 girls at the same time... I like to fantasize about having sex with the same girl twice, thank you.
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Hard work, studying and perseverance will get you no where in life......it's all about kissing ass
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I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.
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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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Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal.
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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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Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.
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