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And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.

I'm very monogamous.

We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.

When I signed that major-label contract when I was 20 years old. I did it because I wanted to play music for the rest of my life. That's every 20-year-old's dream - to do whatever the hell you want.

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

There are always young bands playing in their garages. A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?

I just plug in and let go.

Life isn't pretty but it sure is beautiful.

Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.

I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible.

I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity.

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

Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected.

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!

Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.

I wrote a song called "Green Day" because I was smoking a lot of dope.

The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks didn't know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn't worry about what anyone was going to think.