I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry's [in That's Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn't me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair's character] she didn't forget.

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

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.

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.