Tom DeLonge Quotes

Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are

There's a time in your life where you're not quite sure where you are. You think everything's perfect, but it's not perfect... Then one day you wake up and you can't quite picture yourself in the situation you're in. But the secret is, if you can picture yourself doing anything in life, you can do it.

You should follow your passions, you know? And you should make sure you do something you love. That's all I've learned, is that if you're doing something you love you'll work harder at it and make it happen, I can promise you that.

When we realize how little we mean to the universe, we realize how important we are to each other

In leaving negativity behind, you find something beautiful.

You’ve got to not only love yourself for who you are with all your mistakes, but you’ve got to love the world for what it can bring you if you have the right attitude

You can do anything you want. And you can be anything you want. And you can feel anything you want. But there's only one thing you need to do, and that is: have the slightest vision to see it. Because if you can't see it happening, then it will never happen

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men.

We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later on. Look at people who are working nine-to-five jobs out of college, and look at professional skateboarders or guys in punk bands. See who's having more fun.

I've masturbated like 5 times in the last 24 hours... it hurts... it's going to fall off.

I think that you can say you love somebody like in a relationship, but I also think that to feel love for somebody else or for another human is more about a living being to a living being, a totally different thing. I don't know if people will ever totally understand what that word means until we die.

I think dreams hold a lot of meaning. I believe that if the universe is truthfully infinite then there are infinite possibilities for dreams to be happening somewhere out there.

Life is a search for yourself.

Do what you like and do it honestly.

There are far too many people out there who take themselves too seriously.

All I can say is hold on, and prepare.

There are possibilities that dreams are our little windows upon a parallel timeline.

I applaud anyone who thinks I'm good-looking and invite them into my world.

I might be a dork, but I don't want to be a jerk.

I don't get boy bands these days. Thye don't write their own songs and everything is choreographed from their dance moves to how they have sex with each other after the show.

When you see opportunities in your life, you've got to analyze, 'Why was that choice given to me?

The only reason in the world that I bought a computer was to look up UFO sites.

Dreams are things that could potentially be treating you as a pupil to teach you things so when you wake up, you'll be able to handle certain elements from those dreams in a better way.

If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.

I was kicked out of middle school a few times. This guy who was kind of a d*** and a bully got hit by a car. I jumped up and went, YEAH Apparently that wasnt cool with some people cause I got kicked out.

The compass represents spirituality, no end and no beginning....the ruler represents 'tangible evidence' ... a measurable event... both coming together shall represent a Human Being...the intersection of life and consciousness.

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.

Im not gay, but the man in my bed last night was.

I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things.

I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be it's not art, it's expression.

I think that people feel they know what love means, it's probably one of the most used words in the world but has the most completely different definitions from one person to another.

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.

Whether it's at their job, or their family, whatever - everyone feels that they're stuck in some kind of struggle. The idea is how to find your way out of it.

It's all success if it's what you need.

Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.

I think that one of the reasons that we chose the word love as the subject is because your human connection and how you affect everybody around you, you'll only understand the gravity of that as you pass later on in life. I think as artists it's our ability to communicate that in certain ways.

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

Spending so much time on the road, I get to fart all the time. Then when it's, like, Thanksgiving dinner and I'm sitting with my grandmother, I can't fart for, like, two hours.

I just wanna see a UFO, really

It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.

I've been abducted and probed in the anus. On purpose.

In ten years I will become president of the United States Of America.

Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.

I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a piece of it that might sell.

I will eat anything Mexican - a sombrero, hacienda... anything. Theyve perfected the combo of bread items and the grill.

Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.

I have to make music. If I don't do it, I go crazy.

I think that the needs in human life will change and grow and evolve. I do think that that the importance will always be grander than you would ever believe them to be.

I used to drink a lot of beer, but I was just getting fat as can be. Now that we've had a little success, I can afford to drink wine.

I'll eat a nugget of my own poop for 20 bucks. I'll pay you 20 bucks and I'll eat it.