With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.

The darkness is coming now god dammit!

Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She's a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I'd pull out my iPod and show her different old rock 'n' roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.

With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time...like me!

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

I wrote a song called "Green Day" because I was smoking a lot of dope.

No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.