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

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn't really know where it was going to go. It's like I always say, you just follow the music. Not only was American Idiot a special moment for us, but it also led to Ordinary World, too.

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.

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.

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.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.