One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

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.

What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.