Tom DeLonge famous quotes

You should follow your passions, you know? And you should make sure you do something you love. That's all I've learned, is that if you're doing something you love you'll work harder at it and make it happen, I can promise you that.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Love You #Hard Work #Passion

In leaving negativity behind, you find something beautiful.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Beautiful #Negativity #Leaving

Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are
-- Tom DeLonge

#Music Is #Who You Are

There's a time in your life where you're not quite sure where you are. You think everything's perfect, but it's not perfect... Then one day you wake up and you can't quite picture yourself in the situation you're in. But the secret is, if you can picture yourself doing anything in life, you can do it.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Thinking #Perfect #Secret

The only reason in the world that I bought a computer was to look up UFO sites.
-- Tom DeLonge

#World #Looks #Computer

I love to deliver ***** to the masses!
-- Tom DeLonge

#Mass

Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Trying #Today #Stuff

Do what you like and do it honestly.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Honestly

I don't get boy bands these days. Thye don't write their own songs and everything is choreographed from their dance moves to how they have sex with each other after the show.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Song #Sex #Moving

They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Thinking #Trying #Gravity

I've masturbated like 5 times in the last 24 hours... it hurts... it's going to fall off.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Hurt #Fall #Lasts

I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Trying #Want #Different

We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later on. Look at people who are working nine-to-five jobs out of college, and look at professional skateboarders or guys in punk bands. See who's having more fun.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Jobs #Fun #College

You can do anything you want. And you can be anything you want. And you can feel anything you want. But there's only one thing you need to do, and that is: have the slightest vision to see it. Because if you can't see it happening, then it will never happen
-- Tom DeLonge

#Vision

I was kicked out of middle school a few times. This guy who was kind of a d*** and a bully got hit by a car. I jumped up and went, YEAH Apparently that wasnt cool with some people cause I got kicked out.
-- Tom DeLonge

#School #Car #People

I'll eat a nugget of my own poop for 20 bucks. I'll pay you 20 bucks and I'll eat it.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Bucks #Pay #Poop

'Love' has that Kubrick tonality to it, but this is not a Stanley Kubrick movie - there will never be another. At the same time, 'Love' has a modern feel. For example: In one scene, these astronauts go through a wormhole sequence, and you feel like you're being slapped around inside your head by a sonic boom.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Example #Like You #Time Love

I think my records will always tend to be approachable.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Thinking #Records

I would lose straight away if I went on 'American Idol.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Idols

I've never been a jam-band sort of musician.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Band #Musician #Jam

It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Beautiful #Optimistic #Being Positive

Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Fire #People #Band

My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade. But they've come up with some amazing drugs since then and he's doing really well today.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Dad #Drug #Today

So many artists today will talk about green this or organic that, but you know what? What we are eating, I think, is really doing a lot of bad to us. I'm not sure if I'm the guy to do it right now, because I have to clean up my house too, so to speak, but we've got to start addressing this. Too many people are getting sick today.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Thinking #Artist #Sick

People are different when they're 30 than they are when they're 16.
-- Tom DeLonge

#People #Different

I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be it's not art, it's expression.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Art #Kids #Expression

Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur that's all me.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Philosophy #Angel #Reflection

We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists
-- Tom DeLonge

#Writing #Artist #Matter

I think I might get laid more...by my dad.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Dad #Thinking #Might

I've been abducted and probed in the anus. On purpose.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Purpose #Anus

Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Cancer #Hitting #My Family

When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Writing #Rocks #Guitar

I don't believe that I'm better than anybody, but I do believe that I'll try harder than most and I hope that people just join me for a little bit of a ride.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Believe #People #Trying

Im not gay, but the man in my bed last night was.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Gay #Night #Men

All the selling out talk is really overrated, the funny thing is it hardly ever comes from bands, it comes from some kid who thinks they're so punk because they have a purple mohawk
-- Tom DeLonge

#Kids #Thinking #Funny Things

My company created a platform called Modlife, this prepackaged website that runs an artist's website.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Running #Artist #Platforms

I just wanna see a UFO, really
-- Tom DeLonge

#Ufo

I will eat anything Mexican - a sombrero, hacienda... anything. Theyve perfected the combo of bread items and the grill.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Mexican #Bread #Sombreros

If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Trying #Violence

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Moving #Adventure #Men

I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Crazy #Artist #Excited

But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Idols #Guy #Defining

When we started Angels Airwaves, we wanted to produce our art on different mediums, but the film was an ambitious one because we actually didn't go into it thinking we could make a big feature film.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Art #Angel #Thinking

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Cliche #Boring #Uncomfortable

You don't even wish for the success that I had, because you don't think it's attainable.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Thinking #Wish

Whether it's at their job, or their family, whatever - everyone feels that they're stuck in some kind of struggle. The idea is how to find your way out of it.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Jobs #Struggle #Ideas

I'm not gay, a lotta people think I'm gay. I have a girlfriend. She thinks I'm gay.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Girlfriend #Gay #Thinking

Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geometric shapes can affect matter around them. It's simply because when a human looks at a shape, they instantly receive energy from their brain.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Brain #Shapes #Patterns

The Angels shows are really intense. We play for a couple hours at a time. They're very theatrical and full of audience interaction and emotion. I've seen a lot of people crying and stuff. It's a little bit like church, but it's very secular.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Couple #Angel #Play

All I can say is hold on, and prepare ...
-- Tom DeLonge

If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!
-- Tom DeLonge

#Land #Empires #Violence

When we realize how little we mean to the universe, we realize how important we are to each other
-- Tom DeLonge

#Mean #Important #Littles

In ten years I will become president of the United States Of America.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Years #America #President

I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Skateboarding #Grew #Grew Up

I used to get so jealous if my wife liked another band more than my own. Come to think of it, I still do.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Jealous #Thinking #Wife

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Rocks #Police #Gabriel

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Philosophy #Book #Fiction

The compass represents spirituality, no end and no beginning....the ruler represents 'tangible evidence' ... a measurable event... both coming together shall represent a Human Being...the intersection of life and consciousness...
-- Tom DeLonge

#Together #Tangible #Events

Maybe I do wanna become a woman, so what is the crime in that?
-- Tom DeLonge

#Crime

You’ve got to not only love yourself for who you are with all your mistakes, but you’ve got to love the world for what it can bring you if you have the right attitude
-- Tom DeLonge

#Attitude #Mistake #Love You

My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Dad #Leukemia #Grades

Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music.
-- Tom DeLonge

#People #Burning #Records

When you see opportunities in your life, you've got to analyze, 'Why was that choice given to me?
-- Tom DeLonge

#Opportunity #Choices #Given