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

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn't really know where it was going to go. It's like I always say, you just follow the music. Not only was American Idiot a special moment for us, but it also led to Ordinary World, too.

I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.

Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive

If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

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