“Never run in the rain with your socks on.”

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

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

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner

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.

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.

I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.

I just plug in and let go.

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

Every night I play as if my life depends on it.

I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.

I hate celebrities. I really hate them.

We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.

They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.

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

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…like me!

The education system should teach us about money; it’s an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don’t have the first clue of what they should do about money.

Do not let anyone else run your business

It’s the same thing, I think, whether it’s breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.

Do unto others, then run

I am scared of running out of money.

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.

I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he’s one of the best screen runners.

In the short-run, the market is a voting machine – reflecting a voter-registration test that requires only money, not intelligence or emotional stability – but in the long- run, the market is a weighing machine.