It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead

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.

I don't really give a f**k about the mainstream. The mainstream doesn't offer me anything. Why would I offer it anything? I love the world I have. I love the sort of subculture that Green Day represents.

As long as each day comes with a nice fresh cup of Oakland Coffee then everything will be alright.

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

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

For me, it's important to get back to fundamentally what it feels like to be an American. We all come from different backgrounds, but we come together and create this world. It's like a microcosm for the rest of the world. I want people to feel unity when they come to a show.