“To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.”

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.

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.

Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.

I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.

Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

There’s only one thing i know for certain anymore.” he turned, his eyes a clear black. “that i would do anything for you, even if it means going against mu instincts or my very nature. I would lay down everything i possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn’t love, it’s the best i have.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.