Mark Hoppus
Mark Hoppus
Mark Allan Hoppus is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and television personality best known as the bassist and co-lead vocalist for the pop punk band Blink-182. Born in Ridgecrest, California, Hoppus spent his childhood moving back and forth between his mother and father's houses, as they divorced when he was in third grade. He became interested in skateboarding and punk rock in junior high, and received a bass guitar from his father at the age of fifteen. After...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth15 March 1972
CityRidgecrest, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.
Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.
And anyone that calls me a sell-out is just jealous.
Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.
I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.
I feel like anyone can be a kid forever as long as you have that mindset and attitude towards the world.
It's hard to cover for someone who's disrespectful and ungrateful...To say, 'I didn't quit the band' is just not true. It's disingenuous.