"The album opener alternates between dreamy, almost Guided by Voices–like acoustic interludes and Who-style anthemic bursts – Tre Cool thinks he did his best drumming ever on it. Billie Joe Armstrong calls the first line – "I'm running late to somewhere now that I don't want to be" – one of his all-time favorites. 'It's my favorite beginning of a record that we've ever had,' he says. 'I think it's so relatable, whether it's going to your job or going to the dentist.' Another lyric, 'How did life on the wild side get so dull,' touches on Armstrong's post-rehab struggles: 'How do you deal with dealing with yourself? Before it was, I'll have a beer. Now, you have to sort of learn how to breathe a little bit more. I have never been good at boredom. I never know what to do when it's, like, you and you're alone with yourself.'" (Track by Track Guide, Rolling Stone)

“I think my favourite line on the whole of Revolution Radio is the first one, ‘I’m running late to somewhere now I don’t want to be’ which in my eyes is a very universal statement whether you’re talking about rehab, your job, or a bad relationship.” — Billie Joe Armstrong (Rock Sound, 2016)

“I’d been sober for about four years when [Revolution Radio] came out. It sounds corny but when you’ve been sober for a while you start to have an internal rebirth. Somehow you feel more alive and in tune with yourself. It’s like a new beginning, and you can definitely hear that on the record in songs like Still Breathing or Somewhere Now.” — Billie Joe Armstrong (Rock Sound, 2016)