Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.

If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.

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

I got into music by happenchance and luck and wearing a t-shirt with "I hate Pink Floyd" on it. The irony has never failed to amuse me ever since because I didn't hate Pink Floyd at all! And yet you have an entire range of people out there believing that the best thing you can do in life is to hate Pink Floyd. Come on, It's because it's the world I live in!

Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!