I wrote a song called "Green Day" because I was smoking a lot of dope.

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.

If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

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.

My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at it.

Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No problem.

I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.