I love storytelling.
And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.
I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.
When I signed that major-label contract when I was 20 years old. I did it because I wanted to play music for the rest of my life. That's every 20-year-old's dream - to do whatever the hell you want.
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.
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.
There are always young bands playing in their garages. A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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.
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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.
