Happiness is a road traveled, not a destination.

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.

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.

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.

Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.

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.