In The End: "That songs about my mother's husband." - Billie Joe
Sassafras Roots: "It's about wasting your time in a relationship. Mike made up the title. I don't know where he comes up with them. It would be dumb just to call the song "Wasting You Time" because it's too obvious, so i said 'Mike, what's a good title for the song' and he said 'Sassafras Roots.' I don't know, he's a pretty peculiar guy!"
- Billie Joe
Welcome To Paradise: "It's about West Oakland, living in a warehouse with a lot of people, of bunch of artists and musicians, punks and whatever just living up and down, bums and junkies and thugs and gang members and stuff that just lived in that area. It's no place you want to walk around in at night, but it's a neat warehouse where you can play basketball and stuff."
- Billie Joe
Longview: "It's about boredom and masturbation and smoking dope."
- Billie Joe
Westbound Sign: "It's about a girl leaving home to live in the city, which is based on my wife." - Billie Joe
Brat: "Kids waiting for their parents to die so they can inherit what they own." - Billie Joe
Jackass: "A sax solo in a rock tune makes most people cringe, but that song really called for a Clarence Clemon type rock 'n roll solo."
- Billie Joe
Misery: It's a song about a bunch of people who run into trouble. "Watching Disney movies will change you. A tune like Misery sounds like it could have come straight out of Aladdin." - Billie Joe
Macy's Day Parade: "It's sort of about the lies and deceptions you have growing up and how you have to find your own way around." - Billie Joe
Church On Sunday: "It's a song about when you're in a long term relationship with somebody, you have to keep reinventing it, and it takes a lot of compromise." - Billie Joe
Minority: "It's pretty self explanitory. It's kind of an anthem for individuality...anything can be a uniform whether it's a suit or a tie or a mohican. So if you wanna be individual, you gotta look inside yourself."
- Mike
Warning: "You gotta make your own decisions and choices. It's not so much about what to think, it's just to think. Question everything."
- Mike
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life): It's about saying good-bye to loved ones.
Waiting: It's about being in a good place and ready to make things better.
Fashion Victim: It's about a person who has or worries too much about the latest designer labels.
