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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We put the fun back into dysfunctional.
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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 think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.
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You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
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Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.
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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 would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
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I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.
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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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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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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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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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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.
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Not only do they strike quickly, a lot of the plays they run look just like ours. I could really tell that they are a great team.
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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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When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio]."
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If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I'm sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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I object. I object to any killing at all. You know, it's terrible what happened and I think retaliation definitely makes sense and it's definitely one option. But, personally, I prefer peace. You know, maybe I'm just being ignorant and shortsighted, you know, it's true I'm not running the government, I'm not running the United States. I just don't think that killing people is a good way to remedy people dying. Martin Luther King Jr. said that you can murder a murderer but you can never murder murder itself.
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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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My wife is the CEO of the family. I'm the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
