Green Day is like sex, when were good, were really good, when were bad . . . were still pretty damn good.

All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

Sometimes you need coffee, and sometimes you need a Bloody Mary.

I have nothing to prove. I just want to follow the music. I love making records. I love playing live. That's it. There's nothing outside of that. I look forward to the weirdness that's in front of us every day.

I look at my kids as the Harry Potter Generation. There's a sense of justice about that, in beating Voldemort. It's a classic tale of good versus evil. To have a role model like Harry Potter that says you can defeat evil, but still be a complicated human being. That gives me a lot of hope.

Early on I learned to question everything. But I feel like everything is so divisive right now. Going against the grain would be to not be divisive and be inclusive. That's the disruptive way to go about it.