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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
Record Producer
Singer
Songwriter
Ridgecrest
California
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Markus Allan Hoppus
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I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better.
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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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Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals.
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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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Never let anyone tell you how to live your life.
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I don't have a problem being on 'MTV,' and I don't have a problem being on the radio. I actually like it. So there. And anyone that calls me a sell out is just jealous.
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There is nothing more awkward and more laughable than a naked dude with his wiener flopping.
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If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.
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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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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 stream or buy CDs pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.
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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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I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.
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Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
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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.
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True happiness for me is playing a concert in Blink-182, and then hanging out with my friends and my wife and son, and going out for Mexican food.
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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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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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