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

Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.

I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.

You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?

When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.

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

The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.

We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.

I just open my mouth and out it comes.

We are not afraid to be entertainers.

When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.

Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.

The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He’s having a mid-life moment, and it’s a small moment, really.

I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.

Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

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

I want you to think back to when you were a kid. Remember the day you learned you could burn ants with a magnifying glass?

Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.

Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you’re a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

Look – every time is the wrong time and the perfect time to have a kid, and you just do it when you can.

You don’t have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he’s just this magnificent human being.

That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.

My kids learned to color on this table. There’s been a lot that’s went around this table. Waylon Jennings sat right there in that chair and showed Miley the chords to ‘Good Hearted Woman.’ Sitting in that chair.

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always been a real deep thinker and stuff.