Green Day Quotes
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A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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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.
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I'd probably be a burglar, I'd burgle people.
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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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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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I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand. And you can be anyone you want: you can be as grandiose as you want or you can be as down in the gutter as you want. It's just sort of whatever emotional freeway you're on at the time.
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You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
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Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere)
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If someone falls down, pick them back up. Just because there's not a frickin camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to look out for each other.
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I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.
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Don't jack off a cactus, you'll only hurt your hand and the cactus' feelings...
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The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.
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Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God.
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I used to drink beer and smoke pot before I played. Now I drink tequila and smoke pot. So it's a little different...
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We're charging what we're worth and we don't think we're worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam.
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When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.