I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?

That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.

I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.

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.

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

The darkness is coming now god dammit!

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