Mark Hoppus Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

  Mark Hoppus

  Writing, Mean, Who I Am

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

• I think people take Blink-128 more seriously now than they did before. And it's largely our fault because we called our records Enema of the State and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. We were always kind of the underdogs, especially critically. People wrote us off as this joke band. But the people who listened to Blink knew that we were silly and whatever, but we wrote songs about divorce and suicide and depression. Those kids that were listening to Blink are now the ones that control all these outlets that used to just write us off.

  Mark Hoppus

  Suicide, Song, Silly

  Source: www.spin.com

• 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.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.spin.com

• What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics.

  Mark Hoppus

  Writing, Dark, Catchy

  Source: www.spin.com

• Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, Writing, Different Experiences

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Cosmogirl Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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