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.

A turtle does come in it's own bowl

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

Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.

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

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

First and foremost, I want people on concerts to have a really great experience away from the negative press and negative stuff that you see on the news and Facebook. I don't even like seeing people's cell phones. Let's have a human experience and rub up against each other, you know.