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Billie quotes
+ A little bit of beer, a little ginseng, a little song, a little dance, we'll be rearin to go.
+ Hey, wait a second. Why is it so bright in here? How is anyone meant to fuck when the lights are on?
+ Mostly you get it from record company and merchandising people...People coming up to you and trying to bullshit with you all the time thinking that you're like friends or something. It's like No you're not my friend. You never were my friend.
+ I am the antichrist. Buy some more of me merchandise.
+ There are nice guys trying to be assholes and assholes trying to be nice guys. I'm an asshole trying to be a nice guy.
+ Throw mud at each other... see how many stupid things you can do to each other all at one time.
+ Like in The Grouch. You start to feel like you're getting older, like a parent, like a dad now, but then there's that whole really cool side of it, like, Shit I get to play with toys and watch Saturday morning cartoons. I can't figure anything more fun or childish than that.
+ One night I sank about eight gin and tonics, and I just couldn't stop pissing. In the end, I pissed all over the barbeque.
+ Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No more problem.
+ A lot of people said we were using punk rock as a stepping stone to get fame and fortune. People started called it "Gap punk." I didn't feel guilty. I felt like we were probably an introduction to a kid that's going to get into more punk rock music later on, and buy Black Flag records. That's a positive thing. There are a lot of kids now that are really active in the punk rock community, and it has to do with the fact that they got into Dookie.
+ We wanted to kick people's asses. We loved playing festivals because we got to kick bands' asses every single night. There is not a band you can mention that we haven't kicked their ass on stage at one time or another.
+ It [getting naked on stage] usually happens when the shows are sort of mediocre. It like when a show doesn't completely kick ass, you know? And the energy we're getting from the audience isn't too great, and the audience isn't getting good feedback from us. So I give them something to remember--even if it's not very big.
+ This is no longer the Pop Disaster Tour. This is now Ozzfest.
+ I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea.
+ We're just a silly little band from the Berkeley-Bay area.
+ We're proud to be a punk band because that's very high-energy music.
+ Mistakes are a big part of our sound.
+ I'm just the same idiot from Rodeo, CA that I was before Dookie came out. So if you see me in the street, come by and say "hi". I guarantee you I'll say "hi" back.
+ I've never had a very high standard of living. Any money I've seen hasn't changed the way I do things at all. The only benefit is that I recently got married, and I can treat my wife the way she deserves to be treated.
+ We're just a silly band called Green Day, and we're from no place special, just like no one else on this fucking planet.
+ That's a big guy... much bigger than me... but I'm working on it.
+ We've gone through a lot to get here, but it's been fun.
+ I'm an asshole, I'm a jerk, I'm a twerp, I'm a flea bit butt.
+ We can play anywhere at anytime.
+ Aw shit! God damn! Aw shit! Ah fuck! Ah fuckin shit fuck shit fuck! Stick that up your ass FCC!
+ This song is dedicated to everyone in 69 - this song's called Burnout
+ That's a fat dude man... it's like WHOA WATCH OUT!
+ This song's off our album. It's called Kerplunk. It's kind of in line with the shit thing, ya know, it's like you take a dookie and it kerplunks in the toilet.
+ This song is about forgetting what you're gonna say because of heavy drug abuse.
+ Aw shit! It's Ka-Ka! Poo-poo! Shit! It's shit! It's shit! Shit... I hate God! Shit!!
+ Apathy rules, fuck everyone!
+ There are bands out there that have used certain catch phrases in their songs that end up rendering the songs obsolete. We've always avoided that.
+ Though the songs may be simple, we pack them with as much emotion and passion as we possibly can. CAlling the songs "simple" is almost an injustice; they're simple in terms of consisting of only 3, 4 or 5 chords, but that doesn't mean the end result is diminished in any way. I think of the analogy of a painter who has 25 colors on his palette but only uses a few to paint a masterpiece. I think that's a pretty difficult task.
+ Christmas . . .I kind of stopped getting presents after my father died and stuff, because that's like our main source of income. And my mom was a waitress, so, we just learned to accept -- the rest of my family -- we just learned to accept it. We didn't get extravagant gifts or anything like that, but we never really cared. It was always sort of...We just had fun. My family knows how to party, so it was no big deal, you know?
+ You can rationalize taking a shit in a mailbox...it doesn't mean it was the right thing to do.
+ AW SHIT!!! I mean I broke a string.
+ Who's the asshole that's singing? (while showing the video "Waiting")
+ I've been wearing the same pants since I was seventeen
+ If you can actually remember a good prank, then it never happened
+ Well, Tre says Warning. My warn-my-my- my warning. Hehehe uh, my favorite right now actually is Insomniac.
+ If you wanna come out and say, 'Play Pulling Teeth' We'll probably say, 'Hm, no. We're gonna play Holden Caulfield instead.'
+ I think he's slightly afraid of us 'cause he actually won't come over and talk to us. Every time he shakes our hand, that's the closest we've ever some to him.(Letterman)
+ All I gotta say is like if you put every single army and all their weapons together in like one space outside the US, the US army and nav-the US military service, ten times the amount of what's going on in the rest of the world combined. So if you don't wanna join the army, you don't have to.
+ Just one quack-qua-qua bla bla bla-were your parents hippies?
+ Oh, yeah, I think we're gonna be doing a Green Day comic book.
+ I think Green Day action figures would be pretty cool.
+ And what's your second question?
+ Basically the record company blew it.
+ I don't know...never mind!
+ Well, I think, that why don't they do it twice a day? (worshiping Billie)
+ That is not a comic strip!
+ I open up my mouth and out it comes.
+ It's always Tre's fault!
+ Well, we don't really have a set list, so what do you want to hear?
+ I thought it all up in my head. God, I know. Genius, right?
+ The kid is set up for the rest of his life. (About his son, Jacob Danger Armstrong)
+ So you're like, 'These guys are absolutely out of their minds.'
+ This is a total wuss record.(talking about Warning)
+ Alternative? Alternative to what? This is as mainstream as it gets!
+ Im a fucking idiot.
+ Anyways who cares? What were you asking?
+ Are we on the air?
+ I don't think the whole punk scene is being popular.
+ I don't now, I can't answer that one.
+ We can't really comment on songs we haven't written yet, you know.
+ I hope that we write good songs in the future, I mean, unlike what we just did. I'm joking.
+ They looked at me and was like, 'Who's the jerk with the striped T-shirt that's on stage right now?'
+ No, come one give me a break!
+ Quit. Quit. Quit now. Stop playing. Quit.
+ Yeah, we've done a bunch and the bastard loves us.(Letterman)
+ No you're wrong.
+ We're trying to sound like Incubus, but you know, it's pretty tough.
Me and Tre sold newspaper subscriptions out in front of like grocery stores for a while. But you know every job is a good job, I mean it depends on what you're into but every jo- I mean I would never say like, you know, 'Aw man it sucks having a regular job' You know? 'The reason I'm in a band is because I don't have a jo-' I mean every job has significance in life, and all that, yea...okay, I'm gonna shut up.
+ We know you don't like the heroin anymore Art, okay, fine, that's fine, but just talk about something else for Christ's sake! (Art from Everclear)
+ Hey hey hey hows it goin'? Hey dude hows it goin'? This is Lars Ulrich. If you're gonna be out there on napster you know what man, I'm gonna kick your ass!
+ We're trying to branch out and you know we really want to make every song sound like 'Sanitarium' by Metallica.
+ I think if you kind of let go of your vulnerabilities and put them into your music, and just be honest, then I think that's more punk rock than anything that the Sex Pistols ever did.
+ We're not going to live like hermits or anything like that. We just go and do what we always do
+ If people come up, and they are friendly, and they acknowledge the music that you play or the band that you're in, then it's fine. I don't really care. You just bag it and walk out.
+ I had this idea to write this song where all the lyrics would all be bumper stickers. It's fun to play on words especially like "Minority" [which] plays with "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America." It's nice to twist things around and take them completely out of context, and find sort of a different meaning, because a lot of that stuff was written years ago. It's just fun to sort of toy with and mess with your mind.
+ It's a song about when you're in a long term relationship with somebody, you have to keep reinventing it, and it takes a lot of compromise, and the person that you married or the person that you're with a year or two down the line -- there are a lot of different sides to them that you have to come to recognize or be sensitive to that you never knew were there before. And likewise, 'cause I'm sure with [my wife] Adrienne, there are a lot of sides of me that she didn't quite expect.
+ One thing I've learned is to just not give up on life, not try and look too far ahead, but just enjoy the present, 'cause a lot of people don't really appreciate the present until it's past.
+ I don't really think of myself as a role model or anything like that. There is a certain amount of responsibility that you didn't really expect to take on before your band gets popular. The funny thing is that this song(Deadbeat Holiday) is about trying not to give up and trying to depend on yourself a little more when there are so many things in life that let you down. I kind of look at it like an icon in religion or a political figure, people who have to have something to believe in, and the last thing they really think about is having faith in themselves. They look toward other people, and it's just one of those things.
+ I think we've grown. I don't really know about maturity or anything like that.
+ Well, you just sort of have to be honest. We never tried to repeat Dookie again and make a record that sounds like that. Six years, if you think about it, a lot of those kids were 16 back then, and now they're 22. They were in the middle of high school; now they are in the middle of college or whatever, or maybe they've dropped out of college, or they dropped out of high school when they were 16, or never went to high school at all, like us. You just stick to your guns and keep playing, and not really think about it. I don't give a damn. So if you want to relate to this band, then that's great, and we never asked for anything more than that.
+ A lot of people think I masturbate five times a day because of the words to Longview.
+ I came out of the music scene where things are really liberated. I never worried about the way people are supposed to act, so maybe I am a little different. But I don't think I'm crazy. I do some crazy things, I admit that, and I'll probablly do some more crazy things in the future, but people shouldnt't read too much into that.
+ I've never had a very high standard of living. Any money I've seen hasn't changed the way I do things at all. The only benefit is that I recently got married, and I can treat my wife the way she deserves to be treated."
+ I'm just the same idiot from Rodeo, CA that I was before Dookie came out. So if you see me in the street, come by and say hi. I guarantee you I'll say Hi back.
+ I couldnt care les if people think I'm insignificant because I'm 22 years old. Thats great. We caused a generation gap. Great. Most of the bands around now, I've been playing music longer than they have, and I'm also way younger than they are.
+ We're not going to try and write "Basket Case" 12 times in a row for one record. So in that sense, I guess we probably are more of a grown-up band."
"Are you canadian? Oh, okay, 'cause you're sure as hell acting like one right now."
"All saints are gonna be there? Tre, you might get laid!"
VH1's Behind the Music: "We put the fun back in dysfunctional."
VH1's Behind the Music: "You say it to my face, you might be pickin' yourself off the ground."
"[Our 'Waiting' video] was totally a failure. [MTV] doesn't show any videos anymore. If we had a booty video - if we had, like, McG, with girls shaking their ass in the video -- it would probably get played. Actually, I am just really bitter right now."
"It's fun until someone gets hurt...then it's halarious."
"Punk rock is dead...and I fucking killed it."
"Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life."
"You think your life is tough? Try being a parent!"
"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational; I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot."
"They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy."
"School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect, and nobodies perfect, so why practice?"
"I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman."
"There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it."
"I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man."
"I fucking hate Lynyrd Skynyrd, I've always hated Lynyrd Skynyrd. Fuckin' backwards ass hillbilly shit."
"B-I-L-L-I-E J-O-E. My real name is Billie Joe. And it's southern, my moms from Oklahoma and that's how I got the name."
"Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God."
"A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!'
"It's my fucking life and you know what nobody invited you...so there's the door...see ya!"
"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."
"The darkness is coming now god dammit!"
"My mom was from Oklahoma, hence the name Billie Joe...It's not William Joseph it's just Billie Joe."
"They sound like Tré choking on a hair ball." (Slipknot)
"Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1%, lie about it."
"This song's off our album. It's called Kerplunk. It's kind of in line with the shit thing, ya know, it's like you take a dookie and it kerplunks in the toilet."
"What? You can heckle me if you want, it's okay I won't understand!" (at a foreign concert)
"'Welcome to Montreal-- fuck you', would be a good sign at your highways."
"Ah, if someone falls down, please pick him back up cuz it doesn't mean that there's a fuckin' camera in your face that you don't have to lookout for each other."
"Yeah fuck me! I wish all of you could fuck me!"
"A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?"
"Never run in the rain with your socks on."
"I never thought that being obnoxious would get me where I am now."
"Aw, how the fuck are you all doin' tonight?... That's what I fuckin' wanted to hear, goddamnit!"
"I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!"
"I hate celebrities. I really hate them."
"I actually have less friends now than I ever had."
"I'm still wearing the pants I had in the eleventh grade."
"Our passion is our strength."
"Adrienne is the only woman I will ever love."
"I got body lice in Gremany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid."
"You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?"
"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 Quotes
"Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible."
"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."
(At Mark Hoppus of blink-182): "Stop throwing shit or I'll jump in there and beat your ass."
(Speaking of blink-182): "Seriously, at first I was happy for them, but now I find it a little irritatign. I think they trivialise 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."
"Then all of a sudden we got introduced to punk music and it was the coolest fuckin' thing"
"I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons."
"All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars."
"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 aint that a bitch.Thats why the call them the obitchuaries."
TRE'S WORDS TO LIVE BY
"Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible."
"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 burried uder 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 sh-t. I knew it. I was like, 'Well, some sh-t'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 belive they sold out)"
"I want to wash your grandmother.
"Lets count the waves...one, one thousand, two one thousand"
"I don't understand what Billie just said so, I'll talk about chickens...."
"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."
OOOOO SEXY MEN!!!!! Anyhoo. I'm bored sick and tired. Good-Bye. I love all of you!
+ A little bit of beer, a little ginseng, a little song, a little dance, we'll be rearin to go.
+ Hey, wait a second. Why is it so bright in here? How is anyone meant to fuck when the lights are on?
+ Mostly you get it from record company and merchandising people...People coming up to you and trying to bullshit with you all the time thinking that you're like friends or something. It's like No you're not my friend. You never were my friend.
+ I am the antichrist. Buy some more of me merchandise.
+ There are nice guys trying to be assholes and assholes trying to be nice guys. I'm an asshole trying to be a nice guy.
+ Throw mud at each other... see how many stupid things you can do to each other all at one time.
+ Like in The Grouch. You start to feel like you're getting older, like a parent, like a dad now, but then there's that whole really cool side of it, like, Shit I get to play with toys and watch Saturday morning cartoons. I can't figure anything more fun or childish than that.
+ One night I sank about eight gin and tonics, and I just couldn't stop pissing. In the end, I pissed all over the barbeque.
+ Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No more problem.
+ A lot of people said we were using punk rock as a stepping stone to get fame and fortune. People started called it "Gap punk." I didn't feel guilty. I felt like we were probably an introduction to a kid that's going to get into more punk rock music later on, and buy Black Flag records. That's a positive thing. There are a lot of kids now that are really active in the punk rock community, and it has to do with the fact that they got into Dookie.
+ We wanted to kick people's asses. We loved playing festivals because we got to kick bands' asses every single night. There is not a band you can mention that we haven't kicked their ass on stage at one time or another.
+ It [getting naked on stage] usually happens when the shows are sort of mediocre. It like when a show doesn't completely kick ass, you know? And the energy we're getting from the audience isn't too great, and the audience isn't getting good feedback from us. So I give them something to remember--even if it's not very big.
+ This is no longer the Pop Disaster Tour. This is now Ozzfest.
+ I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea.
+ We're just a silly little band from the Berkeley-Bay area.
+ We're proud to be a punk band because that's very high-energy music.
+ Mistakes are a big part of our sound.
+ I'm just the same idiot from Rodeo, CA that I was before Dookie came out. So if you see me in the street, come by and say "hi". I guarantee you I'll say "hi" back.
+ I've never had a very high standard of living. Any money I've seen hasn't changed the way I do things at all. The only benefit is that I recently got married, and I can treat my wife the way she deserves to be treated.
+ We're just a silly band called Green Day, and we're from no place special, just like no one else on this fucking planet.
+ That's a big guy... much bigger than me... but I'm working on it.
+ We've gone through a lot to get here, but it's been fun.
+ I'm an asshole, I'm a jerk, I'm a twerp, I'm a flea bit butt.
+ We can play anywhere at anytime.
+ Aw shit! God damn! Aw shit! Ah fuck! Ah fuckin shit fuck shit fuck! Stick that up your ass FCC!
+ This song is dedicated to everyone in 69 - this song's called Burnout
+ That's a fat dude man... it's like WHOA WATCH OUT!
+ This song's off our album. It's called Kerplunk. It's kind of in line with the shit thing, ya know, it's like you take a dookie and it kerplunks in the toilet.
+ This song is about forgetting what you're gonna say because of heavy drug abuse.
+ Aw shit! It's Ka-Ka! Poo-poo! Shit! It's shit! It's shit! Shit... I hate God! Shit!!
+ Apathy rules, fuck everyone!
+ There are bands out there that have used certain catch phrases in their songs that end up rendering the songs obsolete. We've always avoided that.
+ Though the songs may be simple, we pack them with as much emotion and passion as we possibly can. CAlling the songs "simple" is almost an injustice; they're simple in terms of consisting of only 3, 4 or 5 chords, but that doesn't mean the end result is diminished in any way. I think of the analogy of a painter who has 25 colors on his palette but only uses a few to paint a masterpiece. I think that's a pretty difficult task.
+ Christmas . . .I kind of stopped getting presents after my father died and stuff, because that's like our main source of income. And my mom was a waitress, so, we just learned to accept -- the rest of my family -- we just learned to accept it. We didn't get extravagant gifts or anything like that, but we never really cared. It was always sort of...We just had fun. My family knows how to party, so it was no big deal, you know?
+ You can rationalize taking a shit in a mailbox...it doesn't mean it was the right thing to do.
+ AW SHIT!!! I mean I broke a string.
+ Who's the asshole that's singing? (while showing the video "Waiting")
+ I've been wearing the same pants since I was seventeen
+ If you can actually remember a good prank, then it never happened
+ Well, Tre says Warning. My warn-my-my- my warning. Hehehe uh, my favorite right now actually is Insomniac.
+ If you wanna come out and say, 'Play Pulling Teeth' We'll probably say, 'Hm, no. We're gonna play Holden Caulfield instead.'
+ I think he's slightly afraid of us 'cause he actually won't come over and talk to us. Every time he shakes our hand, that's the closest we've ever some to him.(Letterman)
+ All I gotta say is like if you put every single army and all their weapons together in like one space outside the US, the US army and nav-the US military service, ten times the amount of what's going on in the rest of the world combined. So if you don't wanna join the army, you don't have to.
+ Just one quack-qua-qua bla bla bla-were your parents hippies?
+ Oh, yeah, I think we're gonna be doing a Green Day comic book.
+ I think Green Day action figures would be pretty cool.
+ And what's your second question?
+ Basically the record company blew it.
+ I don't know...never mind!
+ Well, I think, that why don't they do it twice a day? (worshiping Billie)
+ That is not a comic strip!
+ I open up my mouth and out it comes.
+ It's always Tre's fault!
+ Well, we don't really have a set list, so what do you want to hear?
+ I thought it all up in my head. God, I know. Genius, right?
+ The kid is set up for the rest of his life. (About his son, Jacob Danger Armstrong)
+ So you're like, 'These guys are absolutely out of their minds.'
+ This is a total wuss record.(talking about Warning)
+ Alternative? Alternative to what? This is as mainstream as it gets!
+ Im a fucking idiot.
+ Anyways who cares? What were you asking?
+ Are we on the air?
+ I don't think the whole punk scene is being popular.
+ I don't now, I can't answer that one.
+ We can't really comment on songs we haven't written yet, you know.
+ I hope that we write good songs in the future, I mean, unlike what we just did. I'm joking.
+ They looked at me and was like, 'Who's the jerk with the striped T-shirt that's on stage right now?'
+ No, come one give me a break!
+ Quit. Quit. Quit now. Stop playing. Quit.
+ Yeah, we've done a bunch and the bastard loves us.(Letterman)
+ No you're wrong.
+ We're trying to sound like Incubus, but you know, it's pretty tough.
Me and Tre sold newspaper subscriptions out in front of like grocery stores for a while. But you know every job is a good job, I mean it depends on what you're into but every jo- I mean I would never say like, you know, 'Aw man it sucks having a regular job' You know? 'The reason I'm in a band is because I don't have a jo-' I mean every job has significance in life, and all that, yea...okay, I'm gonna shut up.
+ We know you don't like the heroin anymore Art, okay, fine, that's fine, but just talk about something else for Christ's sake! (Art from Everclear)
+ Hey hey hey hows it goin'? Hey dude hows it goin'? This is Lars Ulrich. If you're gonna be out there on napster you know what man, I'm gonna kick your ass!
+ We're trying to branch out and you know we really want to make every song sound like 'Sanitarium' by Metallica.
+ I think if you kind of let go of your vulnerabilities and put them into your music, and just be honest, then I think that's more punk rock than anything that the Sex Pistols ever did.
+ We're not going to live like hermits or anything like that. We just go and do what we always do
+ If people come up, and they are friendly, and they acknowledge the music that you play or the band that you're in, then it's fine. I don't really care. You just bag it and walk out.
+ I had this idea to write this song where all the lyrics would all be bumper stickers. It's fun to play on words especially like "Minority" [which] plays with "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America." It's nice to twist things around and take them completely out of context, and find sort of a different meaning, because a lot of that stuff was written years ago. It's just fun to sort of toy with and mess with your mind.
+ It's a song about when you're in a long term relationship with somebody, you have to keep reinventing it, and it takes a lot of compromise, and the person that you married or the person that you're with a year or two down the line -- there are a lot of different sides to them that you have to come to recognize or be sensitive to that you never knew were there before. And likewise, 'cause I'm sure with [my wife] Adrienne, there are a lot of sides of me that she didn't quite expect.
+ One thing I've learned is to just not give up on life, not try and look too far ahead, but just enjoy the present, 'cause a lot of people don't really appreciate the present until it's past.
+ I don't really think of myself as a role model or anything like that. There is a certain amount of responsibility that you didn't really expect to take on before your band gets popular. The funny thing is that this song(Deadbeat Holiday) is about trying not to give up and trying to depend on yourself a little more when there are so many things in life that let you down. I kind of look at it like an icon in religion or a political figure, people who have to have something to believe in, and the last thing they really think about is having faith in themselves. They look toward other people, and it's just one of those things.
+ I think we've grown. I don't really know about maturity or anything like that.
+ Well, you just sort of have to be honest. We never tried to repeat Dookie again and make a record that sounds like that. Six years, if you think about it, a lot of those kids were 16 back then, and now they're 22. They were in the middle of high school; now they are in the middle of college or whatever, or maybe they've dropped out of college, or they dropped out of high school when they were 16, or never went to high school at all, like us. You just stick to your guns and keep playing, and not really think about it. I don't give a damn. So if you want to relate to this band, then that's great, and we never asked for anything more than that.
+ A lot of people think I masturbate five times a day because of the words to Longview.
+ I came out of the music scene where things are really liberated. I never worried about the way people are supposed to act, so maybe I am a little different. But I don't think I'm crazy. I do some crazy things, I admit that, and I'll probablly do some more crazy things in the future, but people shouldnt't read too much into that.
+ I've never had a very high standard of living. Any money I've seen hasn't changed the way I do things at all. The only benefit is that I recently got married, and I can treat my wife the way she deserves to be treated."
+ I'm just the same idiot from Rodeo, CA that I was before Dookie came out. So if you see me in the street, come by and say hi. I guarantee you I'll say Hi back.
+ I couldnt care les if people think I'm insignificant because I'm 22 years old. Thats great. We caused a generation gap. Great. Most of the bands around now, I've been playing music longer than they have, and I'm also way younger than they are.
+ We're not going to try and write "Basket Case" 12 times in a row for one record. So in that sense, I guess we probably are more of a grown-up band."
"Are you canadian? Oh, okay, 'cause you're sure as hell acting like one right now."
"All saints are gonna be there? Tre, you might get laid!"
VH1's Behind the Music: "We put the fun back in dysfunctional."
VH1's Behind the Music: "You say it to my face, you might be pickin' yourself off the ground."
"[Our 'Waiting' video] was totally a failure. [MTV] doesn't show any videos anymore. If we had a booty video - if we had, like, McG, with girls shaking their ass in the video -- it would probably get played. Actually, I am just really bitter right now."
"It's fun until someone gets hurt...then it's halarious."
"Punk rock is dead...and I fucking killed it."
"Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life."
"You think your life is tough? Try being a parent!"
"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational; I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot."
"They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy."
"School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect, and nobodies perfect, so why practice?"
"I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman."
"There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it."
"I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man."
"I fucking hate Lynyrd Skynyrd, I've always hated Lynyrd Skynyrd. Fuckin' backwards ass hillbilly shit."
"B-I-L-L-I-E J-O-E. My real name is Billie Joe. And it's southern, my moms from Oklahoma and that's how I got the name."
"Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God."
"A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!'
"It's my fucking life and you know what nobody invited you...so there's the door...see ya!"
"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."
"The darkness is coming now god dammit!"
"My mom was from Oklahoma, hence the name Billie Joe...It's not William Joseph it's just Billie Joe."
"They sound like Tré choking on a hair ball." (Slipknot)
"Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1%, lie about it."
"This song's off our album. It's called Kerplunk. It's kind of in line with the shit thing, ya know, it's like you take a dookie and it kerplunks in the toilet."
"What? You can heckle me if you want, it's okay I won't understand!" (at a foreign concert)
"'Welcome to Montreal-- fuck you', would be a good sign at your highways."
"Ah, if someone falls down, please pick him back up cuz it doesn't mean that there's a fuckin' camera in your face that you don't have to lookout for each other."
"Yeah fuck me! I wish all of you could fuck me!"
"A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?"
"Never run in the rain with your socks on."
"I never thought that being obnoxious would get me where I am now."
"Aw, how the fuck are you all doin' tonight?... That's what I fuckin' wanted to hear, goddamnit!"
"I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!"
"I hate celebrities. I really hate them."
"I actually have less friends now than I ever had."
"I'm still wearing the pants I had in the eleventh grade."
"Our passion is our strength."
"Adrienne is the only woman I will ever love."
"I got body lice in Gremany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid."
"You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?"
"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 Quotes
"Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible."
"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."
(At Mark Hoppus of blink-182): "Stop throwing shit or I'll jump in there and beat your ass."
(Speaking of blink-182): "Seriously, at first I was happy for them, but now I find it a little irritatign. I think they trivialise 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."
"Then all of a sudden we got introduced to punk music and it was the coolest fuckin' thing"
"I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons."
"All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars."
"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 aint that a bitch.Thats why the call them the obitchuaries."
TRE'S WORDS TO LIVE BY
"Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible."
"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 burried uder 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 sh-t. I knew it. I was like, 'Well, some sh-t'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 belive they sold out)"
"I want to wash your grandmother.
"Lets count the waves...one, one thousand, two one thousand"
"I don't understand what Billie just said so, I'll talk about chickens...."
"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."
OOOOO SEXY MEN!!!!! Anyhoo. I'm bored sick and tired. Good-Bye. I love all of you!