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Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal.

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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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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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Thats not a place where I'm considered good-looking.
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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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A real punk is punk on the inside.
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Life's too short to sit through songs you don't love.
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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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All the really pretty girls get pregnant.
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Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals.
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Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.
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I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.
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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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There was a great push and pull of what Blink-128 should sound like all the time. Travis Barker comes from a different background than I do, and Tom DeLonge comes from a different background than either of us in terms of what we write and what we think a song should be. Tom pushes me out of a box that I put myself in.
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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 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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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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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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Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.
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Now everything is available at the push of a button, and that thrill of the search is gone. With vinyl albums and special edition releases, I feel like that's coming back.
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I dated the same girl all through high school.
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