Everything that is good in the arts is done by some sort of diversion. - John Roecker

Manson's the man who's responsible for "killing the Sixties." He really knew how to play up the whole "most dangerous man alive" thing when at the time, the most dangerous man alive was Richard Nixon.

When they told me they were gonna call the record American Idiot, I was the one who was saying, 'Oh no, you can't.' I was the one who was worried about it. Because when you think about it, we know the song now, but then it was a really fucking bold thing to do.

I wanted to look at how people deal with death … Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?