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 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.
If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.
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.
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.
The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human
Farts and poop are still funny and will always be funny.
I don't stream or buy CDs pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.
We reserve the right to make fun of every single person on planet Earth.
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.
Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.
Yeah, I actually do know where I am.
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.
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.
Never let anyone tell you how to live your life.