Green Day Quotes
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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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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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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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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.
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Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected.
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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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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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I"m still completely out of hand, just more like a 12 year-old with responsibility.
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I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.
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It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.
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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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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
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And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
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Last year, a lot of times the first-team offense would be out in the third quarter, ... Now, we're playing all four quarters, and that's only going to help us down the road.
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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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I told my dad 'Yeah, I’m going to be a drummer', and he said 'Well, if you can rub your stomach at the same time as you pat your head at the same time you’re standing on one leg and kicking the other one out in a circle and say the pledge of allegiance'. And I did all that just like bam, you know?
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We've been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot... we've done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody ... do everything you f - -n' believe in, because this is what it's all about.
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It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.
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I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump...
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.