The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.

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

I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.

The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.