We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

Eventually, if something pops up, that's cool, but I still wanna continue the process of learning how to be a good actor.

I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.

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.

I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]