I don't mind dancing the robot if the chemicals are ok, but beyond that the robot will not pull my strings.

I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.

All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own.

Punks in their silly leather jackets are a cliché. I have never liked the term and have never discussed it. I just got on with it and got out of it when it became a competition.

I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view, I found I had to deal with the very things that I thought I was running away from. I wanted to hit those problems on the head and resolve them. So they didn't remain as issues in my psyche.