Mike Dirnt Quotes


Mike Dirnt

"Don`t blame me for the explosion of punk rock. I didn`t know our music was going to get that big."

If my kid didn`t rebel, she wouldn`t be my kid."

Green day is like sex, when were good, were really good, when were bad . . . were still pretty damn good."

Then all of a sudden we got introduced to punk music and it was the coolest fuckin` thing"

I have a daughter and she`s the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons."

"All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars."

"I don`t really listen to it...I`m agnostic." (When asked about if he liked UK pop music)

"Now are any of these vegetables magic? I mean if I rub that bean on my foot will I run faster?"

"I`m gonna be cremated. I don`t want to be stuck in any box. Maybe they`ll bury me upside down and plant a seed in my ass."

"They always say ain`t that a bitch.Thats why the call them the obitchuaries."

We were up to the challenge. We`re probably the best Green Day-type band there is out there.

I draw most of my religious beliefs from Star Wars.

Stop throwing shit or I`ll jump in there and beat your ass.

Here`s to our soldiers. Let`s bring them home safe.

It`s the end of the day, I`ve got my chinese chicken salad, Mike`s a happy boy.

I have a daughter and she`s the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.

We had a lot of serious discussions about who we wanted to be as a band, where we wanted to be and who we wanted to be as individuals and where we wanted to be as men and as people, ... Those are difficult questions to ask. Most people need a counselor to do that. And this is a marriage really.

Get in there and cut loose and have a good time, ... It`s a punk rock show, it`s fun, it`s got a sense of humor about itself. But nonetheless, it is a (freakin`) rock show. It`s a show that I think a lot of people have been waiting to come around. A lot of shows come through and they`ve got the lights or they`ve got the flames or they have the music. But they don`t have both. This show is firing on all cylinders.

Definitely `Jesus Of Suburbia` because it`s pulverizing and I really love playing `Homecoming` whenever we decide to pull that one out,

Opinons are like assholes, Everybody`s got one!

I always said the world was a better place because of Joey Ramone.

Tre doesn`t need a condom. He has a huge overlapping foreskin. He just ties it in a knot.

Dog are going to take over the world. It`s a known fact for those who believe it, kind of like the bible.

We write music for ourselves and if other people like it that`s great.

I`ll remember 1994 as the year that ate shit.

Putting that song on our record was the the most punk thing we could do. (on the song Good Riddance-Time of Your Life)

I have a Rolex collection and a diamond collection. I`d like to find the biggest diamond I could find and eat it and pick it out of my shit the next day.

It`s no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won`t help you when your dead.

It;s the end of the day,I`ve got my Chinese chicken salad. Mike`s a happy boy.

All of a sudden we got introduced to punk music and it was the cooolest fucking thing.






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Clocks (2002)
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Rehab (2006)
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Walk On (2000)
Green Day
1,000 Hours (1989)
21 Guns (2009)
39/Smooth (1990)
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Dookie (1994)
Foot In Mouth (1997)
Holiday (2004)
Insomniac (1995)
Kerplunk! (1992)
Live Tracks (1995)
Longview (1994)
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Minority (2000)
Nimrod (1997)
Redundant (1997)
She (1994)
Shenanigans (2002)
Slappy (2009)
Stuck With Me (1995)
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