“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.”

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!

Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain’t right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I’m walking alone.

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

I’m always a work in progress.

When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.

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.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.

Usually, someone who’s in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can’t walk out if I don’t like it.

We can’t take all of our energy and all of our care and finish the painting, then have someone else put their name on it.

The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you’re an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.

What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

When you’re given a platform, and you’re allowed to perform, and someone’s there to heighten you as opposed to dampen you, that’s a nice feeling.

For someone whos made it clear that her life is superior to every other students at this school, you sure make it a habit of pursuing every facet of our boring, worthless lives.