"The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring. "
"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?"
"If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me." — American Idiot musical - January 22, 2011
"Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you."
"The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore."
"If someone falls down please pick them back up. Just because there's not a fuckin' camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to lookout for each other."
"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 musical is amazing. I mean, I don't throw that word around very often unless I'm talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. " — IGN Interview May 2009
"Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God."
"Let's shake some shit up - that's all you can do."
"I'm always a work in progress." — Kerrang Interview May 2010
"It's my fucking life and you know what, nobody invited you...so there's the door...see ya!"
"I didn't think I'd even be alive at 29... let alone still making music" — Kerrang Interview October 2001
"The harder you work, the luckier you get. " — Kerrang interview May 2010
"Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it."
"To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistake" — Bullet In A Bible
"There’s supposed to be a curfew at this shithole. We don’t do fucking curfews. We’ll go off when we want"
"Our passion is our strength."
"Every night I play as if my life depends on it." — Interview NME June 2009
"Yeah fuck me! I wish all of you could fuck me!"
"You're the fucking leaders, you have the power. Don't let these bastards dictate the rest of the world, or dictate your fucking life!" — Live 8 concert on July 2, 2005 in Berlin, Germany
"I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman."
"You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record."
"Yeah I've met members of The Who, and "members" of The Who"
"I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner"
"We are not afraid to be entertainers."
"I kind of became everyone’s weird uncle. I was drunk all the time wearing a fucking leopard g string."
"You have to be forgiven of you're sins now so you can start sinning all night long" — Foxboro Hot Tubs show
"Rock bands are such pussies, you know? I honestly think that people are looking for something that's more than just a piece of shit"
"They sound like Tre choking on a hair ball."
"Pretty and demented at the same time, like me."
"It's MISTER American Idiot to you..."
"I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA." — Interview NME June 2009
"Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary. " — AP interview October 2004
"They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy."
"Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball."
"Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point."
"Of course, you also want something that'll make one hell of a killer tattoo." — An interview talking about the characters Christian and Gloria
"And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that."
"You don't mow another man's lawn!" — MTV Interview
"History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly."
"Y'know?" — Pretty much every interview
"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!"
"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."
"My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that."
"[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."
"The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore."
"I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else"
"Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it."
"Music is the air that I breathe, it's the blood that pumps through my veins."
"The one thing that's always stuck with us is that we're crazy mother fuckers." — 2010 interview in South America
"One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak."
"Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin"
"To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit" — Interview talking about American Idiot
"You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?"
"School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?" — Interview
"Are you canadian? Oh, okay, 'cause you're sure as hell acting like one right now."
"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."
"We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world" — Q Magazine interview - Nov 2010
"...and sometimes I think she may have married the end of the world." — Talking about his wife, Adrienne.
"I never thought that being obnoxious would get me where I am now."
"I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid."
"Welcome to Montreal-- fuck you', would be a good sign at your highways."
"I'm still wearing the pants I had in the eleventh grade"
"Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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"Stand the fuck up! This isn't a fucking coldplay show!" — Concert during 21st Century Breakdown tour
"I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It's the worst name in the world"
"Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place"
"I hate celebrities. I really hate them."
"You can't live on planet rock star 24/7; you have to be down and dirty and have some fun."
"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational; I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
"My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at it." — Kerrang Interview December 2005
"There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it."
"I fucking hate Lynyrd Skynyrd, I've always hated Lynyrd Skynyrd. Fuckin' backwards ass hillbilly shit."
"What do you mean we walked around in girls clothes? We walked around in dresses and they happened to be ours!"
"Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point."
"What has two thumbs, speaks French, and likes blowjobs? *points thumbs at himself* Moi."
"I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself."
"Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No problem."
"Do you wanna have sex and get married?" — Interview when asked what the Best Pick Up Lines were.
