School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.

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.

That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.

To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit

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