“[Green Day avoided flying into Miami because the group was already in the city this week to play a show on its] American Idiot ... We sat and watched the whole thing as all hell broke loose.”
“Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone.”
“I'm a crazy son of a bitch. Do you think I have time to care about what all the other ass holes care? If they don't like us fine. We don't play for the people, we play because we have fun doing it.”
“It's the new 'Thriller,' ... 'Jesus of Suburbia' is really a long song, so already it's quite a task. You can't think of it as making a video, but a short film, and that's what Sam did. There's dialogue. It follows the story of the song more so than the other videos from American Idiot. ”
“Having children is a big responsibility and I don't want to make a mess out of it. I don't want my son thinking that I care more for booze than I care for him. If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. You know they might reach it. It's just not good.”
“We've been a band around now for the last 16 years … we've done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f---n' believe in, because this is what it's all about,”
