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

And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.

When all else fails...be a rockstar

I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.

I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else

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.

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