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.

Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.

I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.

The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.

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.

That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.