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

Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand. And you can be anyone you want: you can be as grandiose as you want or you can be as down in the gutter as you want. It's just sort of whatever emotional freeway you're on at the time.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.

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.

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