I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.
If you start planning too far ahead, the next thing you know you forget you’re living today.
Be yourself. Unless you have the option to be Batman, then always be Batman.
All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.
Dogs are gonna take over the world. It’s a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.
Happiness is a road traveled, not a destination.
A turtle does come in it’s own bowl.
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.
I’m an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don’t know what kind.
I think that’s the most important thing you can do to be a real person – is to be honest with yourself.
When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.
Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what’s going on next week, next month.
It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.
I have a daughter and she’s the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.
Grab life by the balls and squeeze.
I always said that the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone.
Sometimes you need coffee, and sometimes you need a Bloody Mary.
There isn’t an audience in the world that Billie Joe can’t command.