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

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.

I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.

That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.

Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original.

Thanks to my traveling, and keeping up from place to place, and pushing our ideology – peace, love, unity, and having fun – it has worked.

Later when asked what it felt like, I said, “It felt as though angels were pushing”.

Female performers have been doing this for years – pushing the envelope about sexuality – and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.

I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.

The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.

The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby’s boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below.