Green Day Quotes
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I just plug in and let go.
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone.
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The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I can't'. They say it's taboo. It's ingrained in our heads that it's bad, when it's not bad at all. It's a very beautiful thing.
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When you start getting into your politics it's like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it's always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you're taking. You're not telling people to think, you're telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts.
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
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I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea.
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Our passion is our strength.
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A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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Last year, a lot of times the first-team offense would be out in the third quarter, ... Now, we're playing all four quarters, and that's only going to help us down the road.
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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
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I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
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I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump...
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I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry's [in That's Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn't me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair's character] she didn't forget.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.