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I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.

Mark Hoppus

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Mark Hoppus
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 15
Guitarist
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Ridgecrest
California
Mark Allan Hoppus
Markus Allan Hoppus
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The process of introducing people to new music is amazing. It's a gift. One of the best parts of any day is when someone says, 'Hey, check out this new band...'
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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 past is only the future with the lights on
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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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Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal.
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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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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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We reserve the right to make fun of every single person on planet Earth.
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During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.
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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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Make yourself do something stupid so when you really do something stupid you won't feel so bad
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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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I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the world. Read books, watch movies, see art, see the world, meet new people.
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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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Vegetables....a waste of good plate space
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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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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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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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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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