Latest Tom DeLonge Quotes from Interviews

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• My whole life has been completely about being underestimated. I remember when Blink signed to a major label, and we had a debut party for the signing. No one came to party, only the guy that signed us. And I remember sitting there, like, "S**t, no one likes this."

  Tom DeLonge

  Party, Guy, Labels

  "The Guy From Blink-182 Has One Helluva Story About Aliens". Interview With AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. March 21, 2017.

• You'll always see me doing things that I have no business doing. Whether it's directing a major motion picture or meeting with the most important people in government and dealing with the biggest subjects on Earth. The story of the millennia. These are things I aspire to tackle. It doesn't mean I'm going to win on all of them, but God damn, it looks like I've got a pretty good shot at it.

  Tom DeLonge

  Mean, Winning, Government

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• There are lots of things that I'm always pulling inspiration from.

  Tom DeLonge

  Inspiration, Pulling

• I'm hoping that people should hopefully give me another chance to dream big and to deliver on those dreams.

  Tom DeLonge

  Dream, People, Giving

• When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.

  Tom DeLonge

  Powerful, Believe, Imagination

• When you work with a major label they create their own message for you and a lot of the time that works great, or at least it did back in the 90's but now it doesn't work, so I think as an artist if you learn your own business, like anybody would when they want to start a little restaurant - they'd figure it out and then build it and they work hard - then it could be your own little business that you grew to as big as you want it to be but you had much more control with how to communicate it and how it's cared for.

  Tom DeLonge

  Hard Work, Artist, Thinking

• If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they'll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.

  Tom DeLonge

  Dream, Artist, Might

• 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.

  Tom DeLonge

  Art, Believe, Giving

• The labels can't do anything for a band anymore - they're stuck and they have no money and they're just holding onto contracts that have existed from a time where there were resources.

  Tom DeLonge

  Labels, Band, Holding On

• I think there are a lot of different things that dreams do for the individual and they're fascinating because it's not totally known what they do, but we have some science that is opening the door to a new world as we speak.

  Tom DeLonge

  Dream, Thinking, Doors

• 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.

  Tom DeLonge

  Dream, Wake Up, Elements

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

  Tom DeLonge

  Dream, Littles, Window

• 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.

  Tom DeLonge

  Dream, Believe, Thinking

• 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.

  Tom DeLonge

  Mean, Thinking, People

• 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.

  Tom DeLonge

  Mean, Thinking, 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.

  Tom DeLonge

  Artist, Thinking, Connections

• I would love to come to Auckland. That's a place I've been quite a lot with my band so I'm very much looking forward to it.

  Tom DeLonge

  Band, Looking Forward, Places I've Been

• 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.

  Tom DeLonge

  Believe, Thinking, Needs

• I have to be able to stick to very dedicated times to work on things, do exactly as I say I'm going to do, show up when I say I'm going to show up and focus that's the only way I've been able to pull off everything last year but I'm hoping I'll never have to do that again, it's a hell of a lot of work that's for sure.

  Tom DeLonge

  Years, Focus, Able