Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.

A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?

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

When you start getting into your politics it's like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it's always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you're taking. You're not telling people to think, you're telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.