Green Day Quotes
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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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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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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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It's fun until someone gets hurt...then it's hilarious.
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I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
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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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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 hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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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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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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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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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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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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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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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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A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
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I just tried to give somebody a chance to catch it. He almost caught it.
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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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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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We're Green Day. We can do whatever we want.
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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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It has different feels to it, like the song has different tempos and intensities, and Sam pulled it off.
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I'm always a work in progress.
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Eventually, if something pops up, that's cool, but I still wanna continue the process of learning how to be a good actor.