Green Day Quotes
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I've matured, maybe, but not grown up.
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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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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they're really good at it.
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.
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Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She's a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I'd pull out my iPod and show her different old rock 'n' roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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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 started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.
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The one thing about Billie is he will snap and rip your head off if you point anything out at all other than how beautiful he is and how nice he looks today.
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I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn't want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
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It's not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it's more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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There were a couple of times, leading up to shooting [Ordinary World], where I was like, "Oh, my god, what did I get myself into? Hopefully, I don't ruin this guy's precious script." And then, after a couple of days of shooting, I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I've never done before, and I love making stuff.
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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 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.