Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball.
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.
Punk is dead to anyone who didn’t get it in the first place.
I’m not f-ing Justin Bieber, you motherf-ers!
Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I’ve ever seen in my whole life, and I didn’t like it.
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
You don’t mow another man’s lawn!
Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
I just plug in and let go.
My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
I’m always a work in progress.
I’m an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you’re stoned.
Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
I wrote a song called ‘Green Day’ because I was smoking a lot of dope.
Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
I think I’ve always been bisexual. I mean, it’s something that I’ve always been interested in. I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t.’ They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.
Don’t sweat the small stuff. It’s good to let chaos take over and know in your heart that everything will be alright eventually.” -Billie Joe Armstrong.