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Mark Hoppus

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 15, 1972

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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.

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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.

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'The White Album' is a record I can go back to time and time again, and always find something different that I never noticed or appreciated before.

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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.

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During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.

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I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.

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I don't stream or buy CDs... pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.

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I don't want to spend a month and a half in a studio with music I don't like, and fortunately I don't have to.

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Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.

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I like the beaches in Orange County the best. I think Orange County has great beaches. Everything from Dana Point to Newport to Laguna; all over the place.

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I just want everyone out there to know that I'm super-awesome and a great guy and really cool to talk to and that I appreciate all the support.

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It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.

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It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't like to find stuff I do like.

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There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.

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