- His friends voted him for prom king in high school to annoy the school staff.
- On Blink-182's real first tour, Tom was arrested for underage drinking.
- Jimmy Eat World performed at his wedding.
- Got expelled from Poway High School for showing up to a school basketball game drunk. He was forced to attend Rancho Bernardo High School for one semester.
- "Going Away to College" is one of his favorite Blink-182 songs.
- He originally wanted to be a fireman.
- Guitar player and co-lead vocalist of the band Blink-182.
- Gave solid silver Yo-Yos from Tiffany's to his groomsmen. They were valued at $155 apiece.
- Received his first guitar at age fifteen as a birthday present from his friend who found it in the garbage.
- Shares the same back specialist as Tony Hawk.
- His surname is pronounced "De-Long".
- Is of Irish, French, and German descent.
- Has his own signature line of semi-hollow Epiphone guitars.
- Favorite TV show is The X-Files (1993).
- Battled an addiction to narcotic painkillers in the mid-2000s after slipping a disc in his back. During this time, he made multiple outlandish remarks regarding his music that caused him great backlash. He has been sober since 2008.
- Blink-182 ceased performing together in 2005, but they have reformed. The band plans to tour and put out a new album this year. (February 2009)
- Is also in the band Box Car Racer.
- Has his own signature line of Fender Stratocater guitars.
- Went to high school with Kristin Dos Santos.
- Met David Kennedy, former band mate from Box Car Racer and now guitarist for Angels & Airwaves, when he was growing up in Poway, California.
- First jobs were working on a construction site and at Gary's Chicken and Ribs in Poway.
- Has two children; daughter, Ava Elizabeth, was born on 15 July 2002 and son, Jonas Rocket, was born on 16 August 2006.
- Through the years, he had various piercings, including both of his ears gauged, his eyebrow, nose and lip. However, the lip ring became his "trademark" and remained up until sometime after the birth of his daughter, when he eventually removed it.
- Started the band Angels & Airwaves.
- Parents divorced when he was 18.
- Planning to go on a European tour with Blink-182 and is releasing an album with his other band, Angels & Airwaves, on February 14, 2010. (January 2010)
- Married his girlfriend of six years, Jen Jenkins, on May 26, 2001.
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