I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.

We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.

Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place

I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.