What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it..

Life isn't pretty but it sure is beautiful..

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest ar….

And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What k….

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock].

Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place.

Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn't mean you have to go feeling that way forever. You can sing about that for the rest of you….

One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak..

I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner.

My wife is the CEO of the family. I'm the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along..

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about p….

Our passion is our strength..

We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!.

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age..

I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned..

I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I can't'. They say it's ta….

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward..

A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?.

You can't go voicing something if it's just not right..

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality..

I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more….