It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead
Mike DirntI think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.
Mike DirntFor me, when you get to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, there's a side of me that goes, "What does that mean? Are you still relevant after that? Do they put you on the shelf along with the award?" I don't know, but that's the last thing we wanted.
Mike DirntI look at my kids as the Harry Potter Generation. There's a sense of justice about that, in beating Voldemort. It's a classic tale of good versus evil. To have a role model like Harry Potter that says you can defeat evil, but still be a complicated human being. That gives me a lot of hope.
Mike Dirnt