“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.” WorldPersonsDifferentSongAsksCreativeWeekIntelligentGuestsBlinkRadBlink 182 Author:Mark Hoppus
“Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.” WritingDifferentSongMy OwnProducersDifferent Experiences Author:Mark Hoppus
“I really enjoy helping a band form their sounds and ideas from initial spark to completed album. Being a producer is different in that, at the end of the day, it is not my art. It's THEIR art, THEIR ideas, THEIR message.” ArtIdeasDifferentEndsHelpingFormEnjoySoundBandMessagesAlbumsProducersThe End Of The DaySparksInitials Author:Mark Hoppus
“I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better.” PeopleThinkingDifferentDifficultStriveGreat ThingsSomething Better Author:Mark Hoppus
“Every single day that you walk outside your house is something new and different and exciting.” DifferentHouseWalksExcitingSomething New Author:Mark Hoppus
“He [Patrick Stump] is been a friend of ours for a long time, and when we were talking about working with different producers and songwriters for the record, Patrick's name came up. We were excited to work with him - he's a very gifted lyricist and songwriter, and a really cool guy and it was a pleasure to work with him in the studio.” LongDifferentGuyNamesPleasureTalkingRecordsLong TimeStudiosExcitedProducersSongwritersGiftedReally CoolStumpsLyricistsCool Guy Author:Mark Hoppus
“We worked very hard on that untitled record to do something different and that we were proud of and to try a bunch of different ideas. It was like this gigantic musical laboratory that we were going to every day. I love that record, I think that's one of the high watermarks of us as a band.” ThinkingTryingDifferentProudMusicalLaboratory Author:Mark Hoppus
“There was a great push and pull of what Blink-128 should sound like all the time. Travis Barker comes from a different background than I do, and Tom DeLonge comes from a different background than either of us in terms of what we write and what we think a song should be. Tom pushes me out of a box that I put myself in.” ThinkingWritingDifferentSongTerm Author:Mark Hoppus
