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

I took a gamble in becoming an actor and my dream job has been realised.

In every song I write, whether it’s a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

I think everybody should get married. Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Boys and boys! Girls and girls! Shouldn’t we all be entitled to a family-Civil rights baby it’s civil rights. It doesn’t get any better here in Berkeley I’ll tell you that.

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

It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.

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

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

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

I like to keep my girlish figure

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

Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.

Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.

I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!

If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.

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 taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.

I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.

We’re playing our instruments probably more so than most people that I see play their instruments.

If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

You can play hard. You can play aggressive. You can give 120% but if one guy is out of position then someone is running through the line of scrimmage and he is going to gain a bunch of yards.

Guitar playing isn’t really for everybody.

I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I’d finished playing, I had to go to work.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I’m playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was my second job.

I had been playing with my local band, Skinny Cat. I had been to quite a few auditions before UFO, managed to get the gig and then not want to do it!