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| I'll remember 1994 as the year that ate shit! · For the longest time, we had trouble charging anything over 5 dollars at our shows. This is just kinda where we came from. This is what we think we're worth. · I told Billie, Let's just take it as far as we can. Eventually we'll lose all the money and everything else, anyway. Let's just make sure we have one great big story at the end. I think we will. In a lot of ways, we already do. · You're just mad cuz you're in the rain, well FUCK YOU! I hope it rains so much you all get STUCK! [Woodstock, 94] · We personally believe that dogs are going to take over the world. And when they do, they're gonna hit everyone with shit. · Dookie was an action. Insomniac was a reaction to what had happened. And Nimrod is a creation. · Yeah, if you want to call it a band. Musicians make music, technicians make techno. · I just think it can't suck...whatever you do. You just have to make sure...it doesn't suck. · If you're wondering why I'm not wearing shoes.....it's cuz one fell out of the van yesterday......I'm not a fucking hippy! · There's punks who know where we came from, and then there's the people whose rich parents pay for them to be degenerates. · We got these fliers that said, TELL GREEN DAY TO FUCK OFF FOR BRINGING MTV INTO OUR SCENE. I've never seen one TV in the punk clubs we've played. I think your mother and father need to take your cable away, is what they need to do. · We've played everything from bathrooms, ya know, people's bathrooms at parties, to a party with two or three kegs and 15 people and the next morning there was chainsaws and chickens in the house and just all sorts of stuff going on. Anyone have tickets? Mike- "Girls just wanna have fun" Tre-"Yeah" Mike-"Yeah" Tre-"That's all they really want" Cops never read fashion magazines, if they did they'd shave off all those damn moustaches! It was real difficult to make it through with our sanity. Major label people kiss your ass before they sign you and then they don't give a shit afterward. On Reprise it's not like that. They're for real. Everything they do, they check through us first and that makes us feel real good." No, the lyrics are a little bit too clever for them (Blink 182). "I don't need to be paid to sing about beer. I don't wish to promote anyone's alcoholism. My stepmother died of fucking alcoholism two months ago. (Pauses) So enough of your nasty questions." "(about 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 it's NOFX." "How else you gonna scratch on that homie?" "Great minds think alike." "We're validating our insanity." "My daughter's middle name is Steve." "All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars." "Looks like dookie from here." "If you wanted to hear music in our town, you had to play it." "Dogs will take over the world, its a known fact." "I had to cook fish for a living, dude. And I was homeless, so I went to school smelling like fish!" "Wow, they put out two? Well, we put one out worth listening to!"(Everclear) "No people come up to me and they say, 'Dude! Aren't you Tre Cool?' And I go 'No.' I love that man! I love that!" "I'd have to say warning just 'cause I try not to live on the past of our records too much."(When asked favorite Green Day album) "Maturity is a really weird word because when you're young and you hear you've matured, it's kind of cool. Then you hit 15 through 21, and you're like, "No, I haven't." It's not cool, and then you get older. I guess everyone just grows, and it's all a matter of perspective. I think I choose my battles as to when to act stupid and when to act responsible now." "I don't think buying music should be an investment of your energy or time. If anything, it should be a release. I put on music to escape. Like when I'm driving in traffic, I put on a jazz station, and I'm not going to kill the guy next to me." "I like tangible things. But any way people can get the music in their ears, that's fine. But I collect old 45s and play them a lot at home." "I think we get hurt less than most people, if they lived like us. I kind of look at it as a percentage of how much stupid stuff we actually do." "Then all of a sudden we got introduced to punk music and it was the coolest fucking thing" "Green Day is just like sex, when we are good, we are really good, and when we are bad... were still pretty damn good." "Stop throwing shit or I'll jump in there and beat your ass." (Yelling at Mark Hoppus of Blink 182) |