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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.

Mark Hoppus

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Mark Hoppus
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 15
Guitarist
Musician
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Ridgecrest
California
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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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And anyone that calls me a sell-out is just jealous.
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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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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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I grew up the biggest fan of the Cure. Knew every lyric, had every album, B-side, single, poster, everything. Then cut to fifteen years later, and we're working on songs together. Ridiculous.
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The past is only the future with the lights on
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Every single day that you walk outside your house is something new and different and exciting.
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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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There is nothing more awkward and more laughable than a naked dude with his wiener flopping.
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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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No matter what, I think people are trying to better themselves, or to better their situation, or to find something new and exciting.
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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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Never let anyone tell you how to live your life.
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Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal.
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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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I dated the same girl all through high school.
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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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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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