Tom DeLonge: "I wish the best for them"

Entertainment Weekly did a interview with Tom DeLonge about Sekret Machines. He also talked about blink-182.

Did your further involvement lead to you wanting to leave Blink-182?

No. I’m a guy that’s always been interested in a lot of different things. I never willfully left Blink-82. The first time I quit the band and started Angels and Airwaves as an art project, the band was meant to be a musical component of large themes and ideas that I wanted to communicate on different mediums. To the Stars was created somewhere along those first few years. But I never had the idea to start a company and leave the band. That was never my intention.

Are you in touch with Blink about their new music?

I am not. I’m a pretty busy guy these days but I hope that they’re doing great and I love those guys. I wish the best for them.

[Blink-182 drummer] Travis Barker claimed in a recent interview that you had wanted to take the band in a direction that sounded like Coldplay. What do you think of that comment?

I think that every band member has different things that they like and that they bring to the table. Travis always loved hip-hop. He wanted a lot more hip-hop in the band and I wanted to bring things I was into and Mark [Hoppus] wanted to bring things he was into. The magic of Blink-182 was the push and pull we had with each other. It was representative of something we each couldn’t do on our own. That was a really great thing. I think it would have been very bad for the band to sound like anything other than Blink-182.