I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else

We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.

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

It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.

I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry's [in That's Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn't me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair's character] she didn't forget.

With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they're really good at it.

You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.