I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.

Everyone is entitled to our opinion.

It was time to raise the bar higher, or lower if you're doing limbo.

I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.

I am no longer married, so ladies... there you go.

The one thing about Billie is he will snap and rip your head off if you point anything out at all other than how beautiful he is and how nice he looks today.

I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents.

I always said the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone.

I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.

The album was very agressive. It kicks you right in the balls.

It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts.

Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

I'm not exactly sure how many kids I have, but yes, I do miss them officially, for the record. In case any of them are listening, I love you.

We have a thin candy shell, I'm surprised you didn't know that.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump.

You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way!

I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg.

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

We're charging what we're worth and we don't think we're worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam.

I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation.

A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

I didn't have a normal childhood by any means.

I didn't have a normal childhood by any means. But it was what it was, and I appreciate what my parents did for me.

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

Uhm, I'm the one wanting the lessons! I don't want to say too much about it because I'd rather have you see the movie, but he's trying to find his music.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.