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 love our country. My dad served in the army. I always grew up with a song sense of belonging as an American. But I was also in the counterculture and I was coming from a place of fearing the police. So I was anti-establishment, but also loving your country. It's kind of an ironic sort of upbringing.

A turtle does come in it's own bowl

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

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

I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.

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