A turtle does come in it's own bowl

I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

As long as each day comes with a nice fresh cup of Oakland Coffee then everything will be alright.

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

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.

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.

Early on I learned to question everything. But I feel like everything is so divisive right now. Going against the grain would be to not be divisive and be inclusive. That's the disruptive way to go about it.