Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me. I grew up presuming that's the way music was made. It doesn't need to be that way. It's taken me years years to find that out.

It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.

I never take any commitment lightly, and I certainly don't take my wife lightly. I never did and I never will. That's permanent. That's true love.

Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.