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All Quotes by author - Mark Hoppus

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I dated the same girl all through high school. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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