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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.
• There's nothing wrong with being a loser it just depends on how good you are at it.
• 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.
• Never run in the rain with your socks on.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Punk rock's dead, and I fucking killed it.
• 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 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.
• I never thought that being obnoxious would get me where I am now. (Soon to be the story of my life.)
• I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
• 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.
• They have bad taste. I am NOT a good-looking guy.
• 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.
• 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!
• Practice makes perfect but nobody's perfect so why practice?
• This song is about forgetting what you're gonna say because of heavy drug abuse.
• I fuckin' hate Lynyrd Skynyrd, I've always hated Lynyrd Skynyrd. Fuckin' backwards ass hillbilly shit!
• 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?
• AW SHIT!!! I mean I broke a string.
• Who's the asshole that's singing? (while showing the video "Waiting")
• If you can actually remember a good prank, then it never happened
• No my name is really Billie. Billie, 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, 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)
• Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a god.
• 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!
• That is not a comic strip!
• 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, Jakob Danger Armstrong)
• So you're like, 'These guys are absolutely out of their minds.'
• Alternative? Alternative to what? This is as mainstream as it gets!
• We've been through alot to get here, but it's been fun.
• 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 havenn'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 on give me a break!
• Quit. Quit. Quit now. Stop playing. Quit.
• Yeah, we've done a bunch and the bastard loves us.(Letterman)
• Are you Canadian? Oh, okay, 'cause you're sure as hell acting like one right now.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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. (He’s not 22 anymore.)
• 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
  

1. Billie is a vegetarian.
2. Billie's favorite food is vegetarian lasagna and root beer.
3. Billie had a cat called zero and it died in his washing machine.
4. Billie's guitar is named Blue and was given to him when he was 11 by his father before he died. Although he doesn't use that actual guitar anymore he has had many made just like it.
5. Billie has a guitar that is made with lots of different parts. It's called Frankenstein.
6. Billie's birthday is on the same day as the National Cabbage Day.
7. The brothers that introduced Billie to "punk" were named Matt and Eric.
8. When Billie was asked about future plans said he would become a soccer team coach.
9. Billie Joe likes to take books on tour.
10. Billie Joe Armstrong was the Rancid original second guitarist for a while. This was before Lars Fredricksen joined up.
11. Billie Joe was expelled from two schools.
12. Billie Joe has been known to suffer from panic attacks and anxiety.
13. When Billie was fifteen he tried to go to an Operation Ivy concert, but he wasn't let in. One of the members of the band heard about this, so they came out and personally brought him into the show.
14. Billie drives a blue 67 Ford Fairlane.
15. It is said that Billie's name was misspelled on the birth certificate because his mum was high from the drugs that she was given to help her through childbirth.
16. Billie had a nickname in highschool that was 'Two Dollar Bill' because he sold joints for two dollars.
17. Billie has been known to wear nail polish.
18. If Billie could play any movie role in history, then he would choose Austin Powers
19. Billie Joe said that he thinks that Staind's lead singer sounds like Cher.
20. Billie Joe does not like Eminem.
21. Billie Joe played football for the John Swett High School in Crockett, CA.
22. Billie Joe used to have a nose ring, but then he took it out as it kept getting caught up on his guitar.
23. Billie Joe can play the guitar, mandolin, drums, piano, and harmonica.
24. Billie Joe was mugged at gunpoint in early 2001 and is now terrified of guns.
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