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.

I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

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.

Our passion is our strength.

The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He's having a mid-life moment, and it's a small moment, really. I think that the character actually really loves where he's at, in his life. He's just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.

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