Top 70 Tom DeLonge Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Do what you like and do it honestly.”

— Tom DeLonge

2. “In leaving negativity behind, you find something beautiful.”

— Tom DeLonge

3. “Life is a search for yourself.”

— Tom DeLonge

4. “When we realize how little we mean to the universe, we realize how important we are to each other.”

— Tom DeLonge

5. “If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.”

— Tom DeLonge

6. “I’m not gay, a lotta people think I’m gay. I have a girlfriend. She thinks I’m gay.”

— Tom DeLonge

7. “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

8. “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

9. “Im not gay, but the man in my bed last night was.”

— Tom DeLonge

10. “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

11. “There are far too many people out there who take themselves too seriously.”

— Tom DeLonge

12. “Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are.”

— Tom DeLonge

13. “It’s actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It’s cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.”

— Tom DeLonge

14. “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

15. “I think dreams hold a lot of meaning. I believe that if the universe is truthfully infinite then there are infinite possibilities for dreams to be happening somewhere out there.”

— Tom DeLonge

16. “I might be a dork, but I don’t want to be a jerk.”

— Tom DeLonge

17. “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

18. “Angels and Airwaves shows are like an ascension to Heaven.”

— Tom DeLonge

19. “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

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20. “I just wanna see a UFO, really.”

— Tom DeLonge

21. “I think that people feel they know what love means, it’s probably one of the most used words in the world but has the most completely different definitions from one person to another.”

— Tom DeLonge

22. “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

23. “In ten years I will become president of the United States Of America.”

— Tom DeLonge

24. “I’m sick of being known as the sexy guy that writes great songs.”

— Tom DeLonge

25. “I think that one of the reasons that we chose the word love as the subject is because your human connection and how you affect everybody around you, you’ll only understand the gravity of that as you pass later on in life. I think as artists it’s our ability to communicate that in certain ways.”

— Tom DeLonge

26. “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

27. “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

28. “Dreams are things that could potentially be treating you as a pupil to teach you things so when you wake up, you’ll be able to handle certain elements from those dreams in a better way.”

— Tom DeLonge

29. “I applaud anyone who thinks I’m good-looking and invite them into my world.”

— Tom DeLonge

30. “I’m hoping that people should hopefully give me another chance to dream big and to deliver on those dreams.”

— Tom DeLonge

31. “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

32. “When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.”

— Tom DeLonge

33. “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

34. “If artists slowly learn how their business works, they’ll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they’ll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.”

— Tom DeLonge

35. “My company created a platform called Modlife, this prepackaged website that runs an artist’s website.”

— Tom DeLonge

36. “I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a piece of it that might sell.”

— Tom DeLonge

37. “I used to drink a lot of beer, but I was just getting fat as can be. Now that we’ve had a little success, I can afford to drink wine.”

— Tom DeLonge

38. “It’s all success if it’s what you need.”

— Tom DeLonge

39. “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

40. “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

41. “There are possibilities that dreams are our little windows upon a parallel timeline.”

— Tom DeLonge

42. “Spending so much time on the road, I get to fart all the time. Then when it’s, like, Thanksgiving dinner and I’m sitting with my grandmother, I can’t fart for, like, two hours.”

— Tom DeLonge

43. “I think that the needs in human life will change and grow and evolve. I do think that that the importance will always be grander than you would ever believe them to be.”

— Tom DeLonge

44. “Everyone I talk to says stuff like, ‘Music sucks today,’ and I’m going to try and change all that.”

— Tom DeLonge

45. “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

46. “The first song I sent over was Up All Night. People say that sounds like Angels on a Blink record. Well, no – that’s just me!”

— Tom DeLonge

47. “Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.”

— Tom DeLonge

48. “I love to deliver orgasms to the masses!”

— Tom DeLonge

49. “I think there are a lot of different things that dreams do for the individual and they’re fascinating because it’s not totally known what they do, but we have some science that is opening the door to a new world as we speak.”

— Tom DeLonge

50. “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