Mark Hoppus Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

All the really pretty girls get pregnant.

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.

I dated the same girl all through high school.

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again.

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.

We get to see lots of naked people.

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.

We're really good friends and we hang out. It's like I get to hang out with my friends and get paid for it.

In Hell all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

Trivia

(+44)'s song 155 is titled so because the song is 155 beats per minute.

Mark's very first band Pier 69 did covers of The Cure songs.

(+44)'s song Lycanthrope is featured on the video game Tony Hawk's Project 8.

Mark's favorite blink-182 song is Don't Leave Me.

Mark's band (+44)'s first single is When Your Heart Stops Beating.

Mark : Farts and poop are still funny and will always be funny.

Mark: Remember to eat, sleep, and blink!

Mark provided vocals on the Boxcar Racer song Elevator.

Mark originally wanted to become a High School English teacher, he says he loves to read.

Mark's parents divorced when he was 14.

Mark: I'm not afraid of bees... AH! A BEE!

Mark played bass on the new found glory song called "Sticks and Stones."

He has a customized bass called the Mark Hoppus Fender Bass. It is a hybrid of P-Bass and Jazz Bass.

He co-wrote "the rest of my life" be less then jake.

Mark is the oldest of his former band blink 182.

Mark appears in Simple Plan's video "I'd Do Anything".

Mark claims to believe in unicorns.

Mark played in two bands called Pier 69 and The Attic Children before starting blink 182.

Mark's new groupe will release their debut album on Interscope records

Mark's full name is Markus Allan Hoppus.

Mark's father makes bombs for a living.

Mark's full name is Markus Allan Hoppus.

In an interview on the show Love Line, Mark described sex as "A race to orgasm and so far he is undefeated."

He met Tom Delonge because he was friends with his sister. He always complained of wanting a band and she introduced him to Tom. Mark tried to impress Tom by jumping off a post but he broke his ankles.

He had his son Jack Hoppus on August the 5th 2002.

Appeared in the last episode of "Haunted" that aired on UPN.