If you start planning too far ahead, the next thing you know you forget you're living today

At the end of the day, if you follow the music, it'll take you on a really, really great journey

Be yourself. Unless you have the option to be Batman, then always be Batman.

We work super hard to not have to work

All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.

I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

Happiness is a road traveled, not a destination.

Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.

It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

There isn't an audience in the world that Billie Joe can't command.

Imagination is pure potentiality for creation. We shouldn't submit it to the hourly wages we subject our time at work.

Money makes the world go round, but love makes the universe go in every direction.

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

Pillow my head on no guesses when I die.

literacy is at the heart of sustainable development

How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her.

I felt better about myself that I did it [calling Max Askeli Commander Askeli], rather than have - rather than thinking it and not writing it for being afraid of what might happen to me.

Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.

I like crazy, childlike, candy bar-filled cakes with gooey caramel, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, and the like.

I was about 14, and my friend's stepdad asked me to do a 10K with him because his son - who was more into basketball - didn't want to. It was amazing, and I still remember the time I got: 48:23.