• The lyrics for this song refer to masturbation as a means of escape: 'Take me away to paradise.'
• This single released on June 6th, 1994, was there breakthrough single, and topped the Billboard Modern Rock Chart on June 11, 1994
• This song was nominated for a Grammy award for Best Hard Rock Performance in February 1995
• According to Billie Joe Armstrong 'It's about boredom, masturbation and smoking dope.'
• The music video directed by Marc Kohr, was shot in a low lit basement unit of a house in Berkeley, California that the band used to live in.