Top 80 Mark Hoppus Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human.”

— Mark Hoppus

2. “The past is only the future with the lights on.”

— Mark Hoppus

3. “Never let anyone tell you how to live your life.”

— Mark Hoppus

4. “Make yourself look really stupid so you don’t feel bad doing something a little stupid.”

— Mark Hoppus

5. “Farts and poop are still funny and will always be funny.”

— Mark Hoppus

6. “Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It’s universal.”

— Mark Hoppus

7. “I think age is just a stupid number.”

— Mark Hoppus

8. “I don’t have a girlfriend, I have a dog.”

— Mark Hoppus

9. “Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they’d still be in the boat.”

— Mark Hoppus

10. “If something is wrong with you, hate someone else for it.”

— Mark Hoppus

11. “Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.”

— Mark Hoppus

12. “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.”

— Mark Hoppus

13. “I hate it when people try to act cool. I hope they all get gonorreah and die.”

— Mark Hoppus

14. “If at first you don’t succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.”

— Mark Hoppus

15. “I dated the same girl all through high school.”

— Mark Hoppus

16. “It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.”

— Mark Hoppus

17. “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

18. “All the really pretty girls get pregnant.”

— Mark Hoppus

19. “The Beatles never get old.”

— Mark Hoppus

20. “I’ve learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.”

— Mark Hoppus

21. “There is nothing more awkward and more laughable than a naked dude with his wiener flopping.”

— Mark Hoppus

22. “You guys are lucky, cuz in Europe, like you can show boobs on TV and like in magazines and what not. We’re Americans so the slightest, the slightest glimpse of a nipple will...”

— Mark Hoppus

23. “Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I’m not advocating promiscuity.”

— Mark Hoppus

24. “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

25. “I feel like anyone can be a kid forever as long as you have that mindset and attitude towards the world.”

— Mark Hoppus

26. “Life’s too short to sit through songs you don’t love.”

— Mark Hoppus

27. “Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals.”

— Mark Hoppus

28. “I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.”

— Mark Hoppus

29. “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

30. “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

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

— Mark Hoppus

32. “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

33. “Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It’s an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.”

— Mark Hoppus

34. “I would probably say, ‘Don’t worry so much about stuff as you grow up.’”

— Mark Hoppus

35. “Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are.”

— Mark Hoppus

36. “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

37. “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

38. “Make yourself do something stupid so when you really do something stupid you won’t feel so bad.”

— Mark Hoppus

39. “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

40. “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

41. “And anyone that calls me a sell-out is just jealous.”

— Mark Hoppus

42. “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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43. “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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44. “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

45. “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.”

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46. “I don’t stream or buy CDs pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.”

— Mark Hoppus

47. “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

48. “Ideally, each week, I’d like to have rad, intelligent, creative, funny guests with different takes on the world of music. I will ask them all what their favorite blink-182 song is, and what they like best about me as a person.”

— Mark Hoppus

49. “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

50. “A real punk is punk on the inside.”

— Mark Hoppus