billie joe

* "i may be immature, but i am responsible."

* "the older i get, the more i try to make my anger have a direction instead of just sort of wallowing in it."

* "i never really thought that being obnixious would get me to where i am right now."

* "the punk scene is very opinionated, and you've got to watch what you say or people come down on you."

* "you can go to hell in a handbasket for all i care!"

* "we've made a lot of people feel good about the fact that they're lonely, loser geeks."

* "there are nice guys trying to be assholes and assholes trying to be nice guys. im an asshole trying to be a nice guy."

* "thats what punk rock is -- practicing your beliefs, sticking to what you believe in, no matter what."

* "i believe in individuality, being yourself, and to hell with what anybody else thinks about you."

* "to us, rock and roll -- especially the kind of music we play -- is all about acting a little crazy and making sure that everyone is having a good time."

* "we're in a van, we stink and its rad." [remembering the moment mike graduated high skool]

* "no ones really happy anyway. its not human."

* "i feel really ugly all the time, or else i feel like a stupid drunk."

* "the funnest times you'll ever have is the worst possible predicament you could be in."

* "cadaver...i like that word. it sounds like a big bird or something."

* "i like to write in the first person because id rather talk sh*t about myself than someone else."

* "i cant think of anything less punk than establishing a set of rules."

* "nothing beats a good riot."

* "punk was the best education ive ever had."

* "the first time i ever saw him play, tre cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap."

mike

* "you're not allowed to stop [or] the lord will slap you in the mouth." [about being onstage]

* "we personally believe that dogs are going to take over the world. and when they do, they're gonna hit everyone with sh*t." [joking about the origin of dookie]

* "if you can say the world dookie you can keep in touch with the child within."

* "i can't call my child my 'offspring' because it makes her sound like an alien!"

* "sublime really annoys me. well the singer does. its ok to party, its ok to take drugs and have fun, but dont die! dont die! party and go on but dont die! thats the rule. he died. we all party, but we dont die!!"

* "had i made 30 cents for the rest of my life, this is what id be doing."

* "chickens were running all over the house, someone had a chainsaw going inside, and our drummer was soaked with milk and cheerios and covered with saran wrap." [about a party they played in rhode island]

* "we all have a bit of the little prince in us."

* "selling out is compromising your musical intentions, and we dont know how to do that."

* "the last time i was in LA, i had midgets sniffing cocaine in my hotel room."

tre

* "now, instead of walking through a plate glass window, like 'oh yeah!' -- CRASH! -- i [think], 'if i jump through that window its gonna cut me real bad and thats gonna put a damper on my party situation.'" [about maturing]

* "you cant pull out the gun and blow away the telly anymore, cause the baby might be sleeping." [about becoming a father]

* "remember kids! maggots: the other white meat!"

* "playing songs for people sends energy to the crowd. and then they send it right back to you, and its a blast."

* "its best to sneer at reality."

* "I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents."

* "billie is just a f*cking songwriting antenna."

* "i have more party gowns now!" [when asked how fame has changed them]

* "i dont like magazines. i hate magazines. i hate fanzines. i hate everything with the word zine in it, except for comic books and they dont say zine they say book. they all smell like perfume and sh*t."

* "its a good song, toot toot, f*ck you." [about longview]

* "we put in some serious f*cking hours to be considered slackers."

* "see? we're bonding." [said to tres mom after the birth of his daughter each time she looked at him while he held her]

* "i have a message for all the kids out there: i didnt complete high skool, and im very rich and very successful."

* "i was walking my dog this morning, and i suddenly thought to myself, 'i have a really weird job.'"

* "i wake up, skate to the kitchen, grab myself a beer, skate down to the northwest wing of my elaborate oakland castle. then i go for a bath in pink champagne. but we just play music all the time. sometimes we make sweet love, but its pretty much sex, rock 'n' roll and whatever drugs you've seen the band members take personally."