Green Day are the minority.

The whole point of making a record was just to be maximum Green Day, just to sort of create our own culture, our own lifestyle. And when that starts to leak over into the mainstream, for me it's really exciting, because you honestly feel like you're contributing something.

[Green Day avoided flying into Miami because the group was already in the city this week to play a show on its] American Idiot ... We sat and watched the whole thing as all hell broke loose.

I'm always a work in progress..

I write everything on a xylophone!

It's more verbatim to the storyline of the record, but within it, it shows more of what we [Green Day] would see or think about than just a fantasy video,