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...'
When I was growing up skateboarding, a bunch of friends and I went to this thrift store and as we were leaving I jumped up and passed gas in my friend's face. I turned around and it wasn't my friend, it was this nice old lady who was just walking out of the store. That was probably one of the more awkward apologies I've had to make in my life.
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.
All the really pretty girls get pregnant.
If your like me, you like to wait till your parents are having sex and walk in on them and act like its an accident, and then ask if you can join in.
The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent
Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to tell you you're an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.
I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about.
I think when people are jumping on top of each other's ideas, it elevates it a lot more than me going into the studio and working on something all by myself for a while.
True happiness for me is playing a concert in Blink-182, and then hanging out with my friends and my wife and son, and going out for Mexican food.
'Built This Pool' was an idea that I had for a song starting several years ago, and as we were in between takes of recording something, I was actually holding a guitar at the time, and I played this silly thing, and sang the lyrics to 'Built This Pool' kinda in the background.
Every single day that you walk outside your house is something new and different and exciting.
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.
Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.
I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better.
I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California.
I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.
It really expresses a man in pain.
It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.
Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.
I don't stream or buy CDs pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.
I think that breaking into the mainstream - it was just the right cycle of music for us in Blink-182. People were kind of over the boy-band, pop-princess, manufactured sensibility, and were excited for guitars and angst and energy and enthusiasm, which is our thing.
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.
There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.
