Tom DeLonge opens up on Blink-182's 'indefinite hiatus'

Blink-182’s guitarist, Tom DeLonge, is finally revealing why the successful band split in 2005.

DeLonge sat down with BBC Radio 1 and discussed how the machine's external pressures were the key motive for the breakup.

"The band got so big that the machine running the band took over,” DeLonge said. “We were burnt out, we needed a break, but the machine won't let you do that. The band had stopped communicating because the machine was so big."

Different priorities brought intolerable opinions on how the band should be run.

"My priority was my family, and my life had to be structured in a way where I had to be around for my daughter ... and they wanted to keep touring, and it didn't work out to where our priorities were the same," he said.

The band got back together in 2009 and will be releasing their latest album, Neighborhoods, in September. The album is titled after all the differences each bandmate brings to Blink-182.

"We each bring a very different aesthetic, talent, and sound to the band. And in the differences between our ideas, the struggle and edge of all the different directions, is where the good things happen when we write together,” vocalist and bassist Mark Hoppus told MTV News.

"So we're each like different neighborhoods in a city. Everybody in the world thinks of something unique unto themselves when they hear the word 'neighborhoods.'”

Blink-182 will be joining My Chemical Romance this summer for the Honda Civic Tour.