"Without the disappearance of those sessions, we wouldn’t have gotten American Idiot, a powerful force of nature, Green Day’s strongest album as a whole, and a record that vitalized a generation born into a world of unbridled political chaos."

"Despite taking some time to get out of their shells upon entering the Berkeley studio they would call home for almost a month, that anxious energy lent itself to what makes Dookie such an incredible album so many years later."