Tom DeLonge
Tom DeLonge
Thomas Matthew "Tom" DeLonge, Jr., is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, and film producer. He is currently the guitarist and lead vocalist of the rock band Angels & Airwaves and was the guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the American rock band Blink-182 from 1992 to 2015. DeLonge grew up in the suburbs of Poway, California, where he embraced skateboarding at an early age. DeLonge received his first guitar shortly thereafter and began writing original punk rock songs...
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth13 December 1975
CityPoway, CA
If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.
Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.
I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things.
They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.
I don't believe that I'm better than anybody, but I do believe that I'll try harder than most and I hope that people just join me for a little bit of a ride.
We really take our music seriously and we take the band very seriously. But we have a lot of personality. So if we're going to write a song about kissing a girl, we're gonna write it. And people think we're a funny band, but we're just realistic, we put our personality into our lyrics.
We were joking about enemas and I said, 'We should call it
We're immature guys playing pranks on people, having fun,
Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.
I've never been a jam-band sort of musician.
We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists
Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music.
My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade.
My company created a platform called Modlife, this prepackaged website that runs an artist's website.