Mark Hoppus famous quotes

From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Teacher #Silly #Son

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music you listened to at the time. When people are down, they listen to music that commiserates that emotion. When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Song #Names #People

You guys are lucky, cuz in Europe, like you can show ***** on TV and like in magazines and what not. We're Americans so the slightest, the slightest glimpse of a nipple will...
-- Mark Hoppus

#Europe #Guy #Magazines

We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Fun #Kids #Honor

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.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Girl #Sex #Guy

If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Succeed #Pay #Firsts

I think age is just a stupid number.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Stupid #Thinking #Numbers

Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Circumcision #Way

The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human
-- Mark Hoppus

#Inspire #Tears #Facts

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.
-- Mark Hoppus

#School #Differences #Long

If something is wrong with you, hate someone else for it
-- Mark Hoppus

#Hate

Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Stupid #Littles #Looks

I hate it when people try to act cool. I hope they all get gonorreah and die.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Hate #People #Trying

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.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Growing Up #Differences #Parent

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Song #Falling In Love #Teenage

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Fire #Light #Good Things

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Kids #Thinking #Rocks

I'm always asking friends what new music they're into, and I love showing people new talented artists.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Artist #People #Asking

I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Believe #Artist #Should

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.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Girlfriend #Nice #Fighting

Getting to meet other artists that I admire is one of the best parts of my job. I don't know if I'd say 'star struck' as much as excited to hear other peoples' ideas.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Stars #Jobs #Artist

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.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Believe #Creativity #Artist

It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time,
-- Mark Hoppus

#Band #Apologizing #Feels

All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Country #Son #Cowboy

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.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Mom #Night #Car

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Dad #Kids #Parent

If your like me, you like to wait till your parents are having sex and walk in on them and act like its an accident, and then ask if you can join in.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Sex #Waiting #Parent

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.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Loyalty #Jobs #Team

Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Beautiful #Cold #Desolation

I don't stream or buy CDs pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Cds #Streams

It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Drinking #Voice #Smoking

Thats not a place where I'm considered good-looking.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Funny #Dumb #Looking Good

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.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Mom #Beach #Dad

I don't have a girlfriend, I have a dog.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Dog #Girlfriend

And anyone that calls me a sell-out is just jealous.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Jealous #Call Me

I like the beaches in Orange County the best. I think Orange County has great beaches. Everything from Dana Point to Newport to Laguna; all over the place.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Beach #Thinking #Orange

Hard work, studying and perseverance will get you no where in life......it's all about kissing ass
-- Mark Hoppus

#Perseverance #Hard Work #Kissing

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.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Song #Cutting #Years

I dated the same girl all through high school.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Girl #School #High School

It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Real #Character #Challenges

It really expresses a man in pain.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Pain #Men

Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Umpires #Yeah #Advocating

All the really pretty girls get pregnant.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Girl #Pregnancy #Really Pretty

Yeah, I actually do know where I am.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Yeah

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.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Stuff #Easy #Difficult

I like to get Honey Combs, and Apple Jax, and Captain Crunch Berries and mix them all together, but I'm freak and I use water instead of milk.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Apples #Water #Together

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Growing Up #Life Lesson #Rocks

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.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Sports #Growing Up #Team

I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Missing #Records #Stuff

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
-- Mark Hoppus

#Parent #Realizing #Hell

Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Ideas #Band #Projects

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.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Appreciate #Support #Guy

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.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Jealous #Mtv #Radio

There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Opportunity #Availability #Doubt

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.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Months #Half #Want

A real punk is punk on the inside.
-- Mark Hoppus

#Real #Punk