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
Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.
There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.
We reserve the right to make fun of every single person on planet Earth.
I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.
I think age is just a stupid number.
I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.
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.
Getting to meet other artists that I admire is one of the best parts of my job. I don't know if I'd say 'star struck' as much as excited to hear other peoples' ideas.
Hard work, studying and perseverance will get you no where in life......it's all about kissing ass
I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.
The process of introducing people to new music is amazing. It's a gift. One of the best parts of any day is when someone says, 'Hey, check out this new band...'
Too many bands practice in their garage, play a couple of shows locally, and expect opportunities to appear from the sky. Bands have to push, work, grind, and struggle to make it happen on their own.
I don't stream or buy CDs pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.
The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.