I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life.

What we get in punk these days are layers of 'anti-', and so many of them are so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.

We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.

There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.

People see musicians on a huge stage playing a festival for 80,000 people and are like, "Oh, they have such magnetism," but it always embarrasses me more than it makes me feel proud.

Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.

I got married in Vegas on Warped Tour on July 4 - that's how crazy my life has been.

Punk is no longer a subculture or a counterculture in any way. It's totally just a small reflecting mirror for the same things that go on in larger culture.

People aren't really paying attention when they're listening to your record, so unless you're shouting exactly what you want them to hear, they don't pay attention.

Greatness isn't worldly fame and success. Laying humble service for humanity's best is true greatness.

Anyone with an ailment or who wears glasses or anyone slightly different suddenly wears a bull's eye. I think that dodgeball derailed an entire generation of Americans. It's the true red menace.

It wasn’t until Thor that I started lifting weights. It was all pretty new to me.

A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's.

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.

Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.

When did ignorance become a point of view?

Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible.