Which songs exemplify Green Days growth from previous albums?
I would say “Restless Heart Syndrome,” “Before the Lobotomy,” “Peacemaker” and “See the Light.” But I can’t really think of a song where we haven’t grown, because in some sort of way we’re always trying to tweak with arrangements and bring things on more of a grand scale, while maintaining the street music where we come from. I’d say the entire album has been a big step for us. Do the songs stand on their own, or does the listener have to hear the whole album for it to make sense? The thing we tried to achieve on the last record and this one is that you can kind of pop into the record any place you want to and not feel like, “What’s going on right now?” Because they’re all individual songs that are linked together, and the story is more about what the characters reflect on and not something more linear, like “Quadrophenia.” You’re not going to feel lost. This might be too early to ask, but will Green Day continue this rock opera format of writing? I don’t know. I just want to let thing
