Green Day Quotes
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You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
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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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When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.
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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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What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.
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It's fun until someone gets hurt...then it's hilarious.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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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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I just tried to give somebody a chance to catch it. He almost caught it.
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We're Green Day. We can do whatever we want.
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A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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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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To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.
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I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
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I'm not exactly sure how many kids I have, but yes, I do miss them officially, for the record. In case any of them are listening, I love you.
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I definitely related a lot to Perry [from That's Ordinary World movie]. I liked how he put family first. I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he's just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could've been the path I went on, or not.
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
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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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Why are there no clouds in the sky? ... 'Cause God wants to watch his favorite band again!
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When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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I'm always a work in progress.
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Music has never been at a better time then it is right now, we're really lucky to be a part of this wonderful thing called music.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing. We'd go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.