Green Day Quotes
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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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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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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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible.
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I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
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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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Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
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The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.
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We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn't mean you have to go feeling that way forever. You can sing about that for the rest of your life, but that doesn't mean things aren't going to change in your own life.
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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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No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place.
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A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
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We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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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 came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.
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The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.
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Our passion is our strength.