Green Day Quotes
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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 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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I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.
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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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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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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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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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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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Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God.
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I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.
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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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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'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 hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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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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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
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You just can't pull out the gun and blow the TV away anymore 'cause the baby might be sleeping.
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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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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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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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I'm like a sack of potatoes, to be abused at will.