Green Day Quotes
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I hate celebrities. I really hate 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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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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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.
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I'm always a work in progress.
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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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The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn't really know where it was going to go. It's like I always say, you just follow the music. Not only was American Idiot a special moment for us, but it also led to Ordinary World, too.
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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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It's fun until someone gets hurt...then it's hilarious.
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There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.
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I just tried to give somebody a chance to catch it. He almost caught it.
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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'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'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else.
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I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
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Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.
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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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You just can't pull out the gun and blow the TV away anymore 'cause the baby might be sleeping.
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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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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.
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My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at 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.