Quotes

Billie Joe's Golden Rules:

» "I AM Green Day..."

» "One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak."


Mike Dirnt's Insightful Words:

» "When an American band makes it in England, that's when you know you've really fuckin' made it!"

» "I think if we're doing something wrong, we'll usually figure it out on our own. You know, it's less vocal, I think. It's usually just an eye-shot." - Mike, Green Day First Listen: Warning

» "Come on, we're in the suburbs, right? There's gotta be a starbucks around here." - Mike, Diary of Pop Disaster

» "I don't ever wanna see a hundred of my friends in the same room again." - Mike, Diary of Pop Disaster

» "Hey, you know what? They can't bleep this!" (flips the bird) - Mike, Live from the 10 Spot

» "The guy standing in for Tre', well...he doesn't look a damn thing like Tre'."

» "Sam Bayer...he's a pimp with a limp. And he needs a lozenge."

» "A lot of shows on that tour had to be cancelled because the crowds got too big"

» "Then all of a sudden we got introduced to punk music and it was the coolest fuckin' thing"

» "You're just mad 'cause your in the rain, well, fuck you, I hope it rains so much you all get STUCK!"

» "All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars."

» "Looks like dookie from here."

» "You guys got tickets?" (Outside The Rave in Milwaukee, talking to some idiots)

» Billie: "What just happened? Are you okay?"
Mike: "I'm sorry, I think I broke my nose."
Billie: "The cocaine. It's the cocaine."
Mike: "No, my bass hit me in the nose." - Live from the 10 Spot

» "Dogs will take over the world, its a known fact."

» "Stop throwing shit or I'll jump in there and beat your ass." (In San Diego, yelling at Mark Hoopus of Blink 182)

» "You've heard of bling bling? This is more ding ding."

» "You're not allowed to stop or the lord will slap you in the mouth."

» "If you can say the word dookie you can keep in touch with the child within."

» "Sublime really annoys me. Well the singer does. It’s ok to party, its ok to take drugs and have fun, but don't die! Don't die! Party and go on but don't die! That’s the rule. He died. We all party, but we don't die!"

» "Selling out is compromising your musical intentions, and we don't know how to do that."

» "We made Casey Casem say dookie!"

» "People sometimes tell me they don't know our music, I tell them, first of all, I don't expect you to. Second of all, you probably do."

» "We're not the flavor of the month anymore. We're like mint chip. You might have 31 flavors, but you've gotta have the green one with the chocolate."

» "I hope there’s lightning! I want to hold onto something metal!"

» "Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one!"

» "Don't blame me for the explosion of punk rock. I didn't know our music was going to get that big."

» "We write music for ourselves and if other people like it, that's great."

» "If my kid didn't rebel, she wouldn't be my kid."

» "I'll remember 1994 as the year that....ate shit.... "

» (On Good Riddance: Time of Your Life): "Putting that song on our record was probably the most punk thing we could do."

» "Green Day is like sex, when were good, were really good, when were bad . . . were still pretty damn good."

» (Speaking of blink-182): "Seriously, at first I was happy for them, but now I find it a little irritating. I think they trivialize what we do, and punk rock in general. It's like throwing shit in the face of something or someone that had substance at one point. Didn't one of the members marry someone from MTV? I mean, what the fuck? But if any band should be pissed off at them then isn't NOFX."

» "I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons."

» "There are weeks when I'll spank a lot, and other weeks I'll be apathetic and lonely and won't want to look at my cock."

» "I don't really listen to it...I'm agnostic." (When asked about if he liked UK pop music)

» "Now are any of these vegetables magic? I mean if I rub that bean on my foot will I run faster?"

» "I'm gonna be cremated. I don't want to be stuck in any box. Maybe they'll bury me upside down and plant a seed in my ass."

» "I have a Rolex collection and a diamond collection. I'd like to find the biggest goddamn diamond I could find, eat it and pick it out of my shit the next day."

» "I'm down with J.C. He's cool. Whatever." (When asked about Jesus Christ)

» "They always say ain't that a bitch. That's why they call them the obitchuaries."


Tré Cool's Inspirational Words:
» "No man can eat 50 eggs."

» "I look SO beautiful... fuck!"

» "I can count to four and repeat... I'm a drummer."

» "You can't pull out a gun and blow away the telly anymore, because the baby might be sleeping."

» "Yeah, I'm going to learn. I'm going to learn to skate really good, and if I can't, I'm going to get hurt doing it."

» Carson Daly: "You guys turned down headlining Lollapalooza, along with a lot of other bands..."
Tre': "Yeah, didn't they cancel that tour after we did? That's weird!" - MTV Live, 1998

» "I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck"

» "It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts"

» "You gotta play for as many people as you can. It's, like, if someone wants to see you, and they, you know, can't, then that's lame."

» "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."

» "We keep our receipts kids"

» "I'm still completely out of hand, just more like a 12 year-old with responsibility."

» 'The album was very aggressive. It kicks you right in the balls. " (Insomniac)

» "I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful."

» "Shut up. Shut up! JUST SHUT UP!!!"

» "It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done." (surprisenglly wise comming from Tre!)

» "We have a thin candy shell, I'm surprised you didn't know that."

» "Its best to sneer at reality."

» "I was walking my dog this morning, and I suddenly thought to myself, 'I have a really weird job'."

» "I like to smoke a couple of hours before the show, to get in the right mood... I get mad when people are against pot. That's what makes me mad. It should be legalized. Do it! Do it, but don't give the control to the big tobacco companies."

» "I am a DRUMMER HEAR ME ROAR! I AM TRE COOL DON'T IGNORE!"

» "What do I know about counting? I only have to count to four for my living."

» "Mike's a really good violin player and we thought we'd take advantage of that."

» "You don't see a lot of smoking midget guitar players!"

» "C'mon man, lets get you while the night is young, afterwards, we'll stop at the local dominatrix house, get a bit of flogging in. Then maybe we'll go down to the Ruby Room and get you drunk, then take you on one of those paddleboats on Lake Merit and make out with you under the stars. You look like cheap snog to me, man. By the end of the night, you'll be shit faced, fucked up, throwing up and getting down!"

» "I don't understand what Billie just said so, I'll talk about chickens...."

» "Wow, give it up for the English ghetto!"

» "We're leaving it up to you, the fans, to stick it to the man."

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» Tre: "You know there's not that many vulture actors..."

» Mike: "It's not even a vulture, it's just a turkey buzzard!"

» Brian McFayden: "It's great to have you guys back."
Tre' Cool: "We know." - Green Day First Listen: Warning, MTV

» "I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents."

» (Talking about Mike taking a shit off the hotel balcony): "She was so pissed, so she was gonna make us leave the hotel..but she didn't. Big mistake!"

» "It's, like, an OK tour bus and all, but people see book mobile on the side and come up and ask us if we have any book to sell. I mean how stupid is that....books? We don't even read."

» "They should legalize pot, do it!! Do it!!"

» "We kick ass now. We've seen a million faces and we rocked them all."

» "I wanna survive an avalanche, I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation."

» "I always said that the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone."

» "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."

» "You'd think we were really good at writing songs or something."

» (To LAUNCH.com on the US's action after the WTC bombings): "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."

» (On Who's Most Accident Prone): "It used to be Mike, but lately I've been catching up."

» (On MTV): "I don't see anything on it, all I see is shows. There is never anything on it. Just MTV talking about how cool MTV is."

» "Mmm, you can almost smell the burning pork...Hey, you ever thrown rocks at cops?"

» "You know, I knew the day that George Bush was elected president that we were in deep, deep shit. I knew it. I was like, 'Well, some shit's gonna hit the fan now,' 'cause, you know, the Bush family's been in the politics business for way too long to not have crazy enemies."

» "``Satan. Satan, Satan,'' he chanted. ``That's what's different. We're all firm believers in Satan now. We think Satan is cool. ``How the fuck do you think a band like Green Day got popular?'' (talking about how he doesn't believe they sold out)"

» "I want to wash your grandmother."

» "Lets count the waves...one, one thousand, two one thousand"

» "It's good to have some offspring...oops.. shouldn't say that word, can you edit it out?"

» "It was the pile of shit I ever saw." (on the MTV Video music Award's in '95)

» "You can't fuck with us now. We did it. We pulled it off." (talking about the record that was stolen and how they created a better album anyway)

» "I can suck my own."



Aren't you enlightened now? Don't you just feel so different about life? And it's all because of the guys of Green Day's words of wisdom!