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| BILLIE JOE'S WORDS OF WISDOM
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"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."
"I kind of became everyone’s weird uncle. I was drunk all the time wearing a fucking leopard g string."
"Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you."
"Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point."
"Do I want to change the world with music? Well fuck yeah I want to change the world to a certain extent yeah. It needs
to be changed....it needs a kick in the ass."
"What do you mean we walked around dressed like girls? We walked around in our own clothes they just happened to be dresses."
(In regards to the story on the Kerplunk cover The Diary of Laurie L) "I thought it was kinda lame. The story was great.
Totally hilarious. But it was too much. Kinda like turning us into a parody of ourselves."
(When asked in 1992 where they would be in 3 years) "I’m going to point a gun at Tre. Tre is going to point a gun
at Mike. Mike is going to point a gun at me." (Mike: "We’re going to count to 3 and pull the trigger.")
"History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly."
"There is not a band you can mention that we haven’t kicked their ass at one time or another."
(at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards, acceptance speech) "Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time."
"Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it."
"You're the fucking leaders, you have the power. Don't let these bastards dictate the rest of the world, or dictate you
fucking life!" (at Live 8 concert on July 2, 2005 in Berlin, Germany)
| MIKE DIRNT TELLS IT LIKE
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"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 ain't that a bitch.Thats why the call them the obitchuaries."
"How many punk rockers does it take to screw in a light bulb (Tre: how many?) uh… um…um let me think…
two! One to screw in the light bulb and one to suck my dick."
"It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won’t help you when you’re dead."
"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."
"Life is like breakfast you just mix all ingredients cause in your stomach it will all come together.
"I told my dad yeah I’m going to be a drummer and he said well of you can rub your stomach at the same time as you
pat your head at the same time you’re standing on one leg and kicking the other one out in a circle and say the pledge
of allegiance. And I did all that just like bam you know?"
| OTHER PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT
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"Do you have the time to listen to me whine? Good. If you don’t like Green Day, you’re stupid." - Nick Rose,
Pulse Weekly
"I remember working in the L.A. clubs, and these bratty kids showed up. They had such attitude, but as soon as they played,
it was like, 'Anything I can do to help you guys ...' They're still bratty. They haven't changed in 10 years. They're just
older brats." - Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman
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