Green Day Quotes
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I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation.
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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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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party. You've just gotta bring it all back home.
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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
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I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.
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You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
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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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There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important. If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
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This never gets old, and when it does, I'll go do a movie. I like the fact that I can get into other projects because everything feels fresh when I come back to music.
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I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?
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Don't jack off a cactus, you'll only hurt your hand and the cactus' feelings...
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I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
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If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me.
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With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time...like me!
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I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!
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The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn't really know where it was going to go. It's like I always say, you just follow the music. Not only was American Idiot a special moment for us, but it also led to Ordinary World, too.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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I can't stop bleeding and I can't stop having sex with corpses.
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I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.