I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.

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

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.

I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.

She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)

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

I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!