I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

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

When people start writing songs for award shows, there's a very limited palette you can use. You end up not sounding like you. You end up sounding like somebody else. You end up getting what the record company thinks they can market.

It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

I hate saying that youth is wasted on the young since it's so f**king stupid, but I think you realize if you're fortunate enough to realize what you have, you don't want to sleep as much or squander any time. It's weird, but early in your career you don't stop to smell the roses since you're too busy picking them.

A turtle does come in it's own bowl