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

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.

Every time is a learning experience, and you pick up a little bit, and you learn things and try not to repeat them the next time.

The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.

If someone tells you often enough you're worthless, you start to believe it.

When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

Heat is more even on a gas grill. On a charcoal grill the flame varies so much that it takes a very skilled hand to grill things properly.

Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come.

Corporate executives need to re-frame their responsibilities to include the interests of all the stakeholders in society at large; not just shareholders, but also employees, the citizens of our communities, and those who care about the environment.

Children make you want to start life over.

The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

We should get rid of the SAT as fast as we can. Look, there are bigger problems in society. This is not the biggest problem we have. But it's so easy to get rid of it. Right? Just pull the plug.

All through school, people told me I looked like Marcia Brady.

A silver tongued charlatan and a half wit society are made for each other When these two come together in an election a great disaster happens Charlatan comes to power

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.

I think I probably tend to make life hard for myself by taking on too many things. I call it plate spinning.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature?