I wrote a song called "Green Day" because I was smoking a lot of dope.

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive

A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

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.

‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.

It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

He was like a lot of Warmbloods, massive and showy and a bit of a dumb jock...

Hotter 'n hell, ain't it, Prez?

Where you stand depends where you sit.

It may be true that every necessary war must also really be a just war; but it does not absolutely follow that every just war is a necessary war.

It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.

I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.

You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please.

Well, we went through a lot of names. But seeing as, musically, I wanted to swing through the jungle baring my arse, I thought Gorillaz was a perfect name.

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

I don't take gifts from perfect strangers — but then, nobody is perfect.