If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

We are not afraid to be entertainers.

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.

I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.

I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?

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