I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid..

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down..

I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA..

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

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

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….

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..

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

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

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human..

Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered d….

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

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?.

I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity..

Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere).

With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time...li….

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

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….

Our passion is our strength..

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….