I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible.

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

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

We've been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot... we've done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody ... do everything you f - -n' believe in, because this is what it's all about.

Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.

The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

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