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BILLIE JOE'S QUOTES
"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."
"I'm not gonna be a mud hippie no matter what u say"(woodstock
94)
"Never run in the rain with your sucks on."
"Punk rocks dead and i fucking killed it"
"you think your life sucks try being a parent"
"It's wierd. I mean, I consider myself kind of an
ugly guy"
"I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman"
"I
never thought that being obnoxious would get me where I am now"
"I write better when I am stoned"
"There's a time in your life where everyone's got to tell someone to fuck off. So you might as well show someone
how to do it"
"There are nice guys trying to be assholes and assholes trying to be nice guys. I am an asshole
tying to be a nice guy"
"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.
"Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning
and
yes, yeah I-I am a god."
"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)
"You think your life is tough? Try being a
parent!"
"Never run in the rain with your socks on"
"Punk
rock's dead, and I fucking killed it"
"I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And
where I want to go, I have no idea."
"Mistakes are a big part of our sound."
"We're just a silly little band from the Berkeley-Bay
area."
"I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I
am now."
MIKES QUOTES
"Cops
never read fashion magazines, if they did they'd shave off all those damn mustaches"
"We made Casey Casem
say dookie!"
"We used to go out and print merchandise over our guitar cases"
"We personally
believe that dogs are going to take over the world, and when they do, they're gonna hit everyone with shit."
"If
you can say the word 'dookie' you can keep in touch with the child within. I've always thought that's part of our success-
we're immature"
"If Canadians could vote in the states, maybe we
wouldn't have such a fucking stupid president."
"We
shot the video on Good Friday the fucking thirteenth
so we were
afraid it'd be a real piece of shit" (talking
about the video "Waiting")
"ya missed"
(from the woodstock mudfight)
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"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 look
at singles collections and think, that's something
people put
out when they're 40, but we've got like 20
singles already."
TRE'S QUOTES
"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!"
"The Bill Clintones Rock!"
"We have a thin candy shell...I am surprised you didn't
know that!"
"Hey I framed my crotch for you guys!...Diamond Dave!"
"I am the greatest rock
and roll drummer on the planet and you suck!"
" I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet
song"
"Lick the goat"
"It's not how you pick your nose that counts, It's where you put the
booger"
"Mike is funny like that, he's got one pair of underpants and he never wears them"
Mike-
"Girls just wanna have fun"
Tre-"Yeah"
Mike-"Yeah"
Tre-"That's all they really want"
Billie: "Tre, Tre, what's your uh, analysis of the future of
Green Day?"
Tre: "I think uh, we're gonna like...like...aren't
we going
to New York tomorrow?"
Mike: "You don't know"
Billie: "You don't
know that the hell-come on!"
Tre:
"That's the future."
Mike:
"Shut up."
Tre: "That's
the future."
Billie: "He's at a bar and this
girl goes, "Oh, what's your
name?" "Oh my names Jacob"
They're talking for a while,
blah blah blah blah blah, talking
talking talking, and she
goes, "What's your middle name?"
and he goes, "Danger
is my middle
name."
Mike: "She's out of there!" (About Billie's
son, Jacob
Danger Armstrongò³ ¦uture with girls)
Callers question: How have you guys changed since your
first album?
Mike: "Billie's still wearing the same pants."
Billie: "Come on man. Dude I've changed 'em like a
couple of times."
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