Green Day Quotes
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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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I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
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A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!'
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My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.
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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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I"m still completely out of hand, just more like a 12 year-old with responsibility.
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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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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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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.
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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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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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Our passion is our strength.
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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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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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It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.
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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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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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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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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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The musical is amazing. i mean,i don't throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009
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I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.
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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...