“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.”

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.

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.

History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.

If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.

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

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

What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.

I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.

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

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.

You know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop – the idea that we’re going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.

The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.

My kids are always like, ‘Why do people always want to take pictures with you?’ and I’m like, ‘Because I’m your Dada, and you’re my daughter. That’s why.’ It’s definitely mostly because of ‘Game of Thrones.’

I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‘We’re black.

I’m a Batman fan from Day 1. My daughter’s favorite is Wonder Woman, and my son loves The Flash, Cyborg, and Superman.

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.

The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.