Green Day Quotes
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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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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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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 can't stop bleeding and I can't stop having sex with corpses.
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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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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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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
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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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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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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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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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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
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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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Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere)
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To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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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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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.