I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.