No matter what, I think people are trying to better themselves, or to better their situation, or to find something new and exciting.
I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There’s a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.
Farts and poop are still funny and will always be funny.
A real punk is punk on the inside.
I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.
Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that’s ever happened in your life. It’s not. You’ll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won’t make a difference in your life in the long haul.
If at first you don’t succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.
True happiness for me is playing a concert in Blink-182, and then hanging out with my friends and my wife and son, and going out for Mexican food.
If something is wrong with you, hate someone else for it.
We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.
My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.
I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.
I think age is just a stupid number.
I don’t think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.
Yeah, I actually do know where I am.
Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals.
I don’t have a girlfriend, I have a dog.
It usually happens spur of the moment, like when I broke up My Chemical Romance, it was just that day that I decided it was time for them to be done. And people were very upset about it so I have to choose my next victims carefully.
Mom’s dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.
I’m always asking friends what new music they’re into, and I love showing people new talented artists.