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.

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

Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.

If you start planning too far ahead, the next thing you know you forget you're living today

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

When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.