I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.

Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.

Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.

A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy!

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I can't'. They say it's taboo. It's ingrained in our heads that it's bad, when it's not bad at all. It's a very beautiful thing.

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