The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God.

The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.

You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.

Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.

I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else

Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.

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

‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.

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

I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

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

Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.

I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It's the worst name in the world

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

I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea

With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they're really good at it.

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

I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.

I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.

It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

You can't live on planet rock star 24/7; you have to be down and dirty and have some fun.

I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.

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

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me.

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

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

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive

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

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

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

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

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.

Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.

My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.

We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.

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

Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

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