Quotes!
Here are some smart, inspirational, and retarded things that Green Day has said

"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!"

""We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks didn't know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn't worry about what anyone was going to think."

"There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it."

"Never run in the rain with your socks on."

"The beauty of the punk thing is that everyone has their own interpretation--like the Bible."

"I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea"<--My Favorite

"I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman."

"It's funny until someone gets hurt, then it's hilarious."

"When some people talk to me, I can hardly wait for the to shut up. Like, Shut up, you're a moron, and I have nothing to say to you."

"School is practice for the future and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect so why practice?"

"Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No problem!"

"I never thought that being obnoxious will get me where I am today."

"Slipknot? They sound like Tré choking on a hair ball"

(on being a sex symbol:) "It's weird, I mean, I consider myself kind of an ugly guy."

(At a concert in London 1998:) ''Can you play F.O.D.? Ok get up here.Oh your wearing an Offspring shirt, Well you better take that off before touching any of our guitars."

"Aw shit! God damn! Aw shit! Ah fuck! Ah fucking shit fuck shit fuck shit fuck! Stick that up your ass FCC!"

"We don't really have a fair system, our social system doesn't work if you're poor. In the US you're dirt poor and the distribution of wealth is more than uneven. If you're poor and you get sick you have no health insurance, no financial security, nothing. If that could be changed I wouldn't mind paying more tax, but I mind my taxes being spent on wars!"<--My Favorite

"I wouldn't be caught dead being a patriot - I've got weird beliefs anyway."

"I may be immature, but I am responsible."

"The older I get the more I try to make my anger have direction instead of just wallowing in it."

"We've made a lot of people feel good about the fact that they're lonely loser geeks."

"I believe in individuality, being yourself, and to hell with what anybody else thinks about you."

"Nothing beats a good riot."

"I can't think of anything less punk than establishing a set of rules."

"You can go to hell in a hand basket for all I care!"

"No one's really happy anyway. It’s not human."

"That’s what punk rock is, practicing your beliefs, sticking to what you believe in, no matter what."

"Punk is not just the sound, the music, Punk is a lifestyle... It's a lifestyle I choose for myself. It's not about popularity and all that crap."

"I thought it all up in my head. God, I know. Genius, right?"

"So you're like, 'These guys are absolutely out of their minds.'"

"The beauty of punk was the same three bands sharing one guy's amp."

"How can I slag off N'SYNC? That would be like beating up a 13 year old!"

"Pretty and demented at the same time, so...like me!"

(About the car being used for the Holiday and Boulevard videos:)"Someone needs to pimp this ride"

Billie Joe: "Speedy? That's a good name." (about the fish he just bought for his son)
Billie's son, Joey: "Where are we gonna bury him when he dies?"
Billie Joe: "I don't know, let's not think about that right now, let's worry about taking care of him."

"I'm just the same idiot from Rodeo, California 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".

(At a concert in New Jersey, 2005):

"How's everyone doing tonight way on the left? Alright, how about on the right? How about way back there in the nosebleeds? And of course, how are my friends up front?"

(about the band that they put together on stage:) "This is the best fucking band we've ever put together!"

"Just remember, you are the leaders, you have the fucking power. Don't let anyone tell you what to do or what to believe!"

(to a fan who wanted to play the drums:) "Do you play the drums? You swear to God? How long have you been playing for? Eight years? What?! Because of him?*points at Tré* Alright...get your ass up here"

(at the end of the song, to the fan who played guitar) "Hey lady, get over here. Whats your name?...Well, Sarah you can keep the guitar. *she hugs him* Alright, alright now beat it! Get your ass off my stage!"

(when he called up his bass player:) "He's wearing a Metallica t-shirt....this better be good!"

(to the fan that had been playing bass:) "Wait! Where'd our bass player go? There he is! Where you going? No, no, no, no, no....you have to stage dive!"

"This song goes out to everyone who comes from a small town...this song is called Jesus of Suburbia!"

"This next song is called....HOLIDAY! This song is not Anti-American...its Anti-WAR!"

"You guys fucking rule"

(After introducing the other band members) "And my name is George W. Bush." (after the "boos" had subsided) "Actually you can just call me ass hole."

(At an interview:) "There was a time in my past, especially during 'Dookie,' when I thought, 'Did I enjoy everything to its fullest? Did I take anything for granted? So once 'Boulevard' went crazy, I thought, 'I just want to enjoy this and appreciate it every day and be grateful."'

(About the WMUWSE video being considered controversial) "Controversy? What controversy? This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected."

"You think your life is tough? Try being a parent!"

"I hate celebrities...I really hate them"

"I actually have less friends now than I ever had."

"I'm still wearing the pants that I had in 11th grade."

"Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes."

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Mike's Advice

"I told Billie, 'Let's just take it as far as we can. Eventually we'll lose all the money and everything else, anyway. Let's just make sure we have one great big story at the end.' I think we will. In a lot of ways, we already do."

"If you're going to do something wrong, make sure you do it right."

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

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

"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 not, fuck them."

"All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars"

"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."

"There's punks who know where we came from, and then there's the people whose rich parents pay for them to be degenerates."

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 irritating. 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."

"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."

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

"Hey, Bill, check it out, itsn't it the wackiest thing you've every heard?" (about Longview when Billie first wrote it)

"I think I broke my nose" (from MTV's Live From the Ten Spot when he hit himself with his guitar.)

"Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one"

(About the car that they were using for the Holiday and Boulevard videos:)"You've heard of bling bling? This is more ding ding."

"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!"

"With being surround by reality t.v. and the media being swayed in one way or another, and all this information being thrown at you, we're ready to say 'I've had enough, i feel used and disenfrachized and were not gonna take it anymore'"

"Sam Bayer, hes the pimp with a limp and he needs a losenge"

"And that guy standing in for Tré, well...he doesnt look a damn thing like Tré!"

(About the vulture in the Boulevard video:)Thats not even a vulture, its just a turkey buzzard!"

(About the meaning of the song Boulevard:)It means that you're at the helm of your own destiny. If you want to get any deeper than that you gotta talk to Billie."

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"Cool" Quotes

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

"I can suck my own."

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

"I have a message for all the kids out there-I never finished high school and I am very rich and very sucessful."

"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!"

"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."

(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."

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

"We're living in a world with escalated censorship. But what are you gonna do? sit, roll over? No, or are you gonna stick your neck out. Let them bleep out what they wanna bleep out and say what needs to be said"

"And in other news; I am no longer married, so ladies...there you go."

"You suck! Fuck you! I rule! Ha ha ha ha...

(to the tune of 'Nanny nanny poo poo') "I just got a new drum set! I just got a new drum set! And its really cool! All the drums are round. They're not ever burned. Or smashed on the ground. So nanny nanny ha ha!"

"Thats fucking right, I'm here to say fuck a whole fucking bunch of fucking times so fucking down-fucking-load this fucking shit-fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck ha haaaaaa...."

"Er-I'm in full camo gear and I'm perched in a tree outside of Kid Rock's house right now, and I'm salking him...it's very cool..."

"I lost my pants yesterday, cause I got really wasted, so if anybody hout there has my pants-I'd like them back. Thanks"

"Here I am on the phone once again telling you how cool I am. Yeah...enjoy me"

(during a radio interview in New Zeland)"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"

"That's the Green Day Way!"

"It was time to raise the bar higher, or lower if you're doing limbo"

"I'm more like a twelve year old with responsibilities"

"The one thing about Billie is he will snap and rip your head off if you point anything out at all other than how beautiful he is and how nice he looks today"

(In reply to the interview question, "Have any of you ever slept with a groupie"?) "Is a groupie a fish? I can't fall in love with a different species. I don't have gills and I can't fetilize the eggs. I've tried!"

"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"

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

(on Avril Lavigne) "I'd choke her with her fucking tie if I met her"

"Sometimes you jack off so much that you get blackheads all over your dick, you get athlete's cock"

"Everyone is entitled to our opinion"

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