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Quotes These quotes have been researched exclusively for Jaded Online and are taken from interviews with Green Day. Mike "Dogs are going to take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, like the Bible." (Nov 1994) Billie Joe "Sometimes you're in a creative rut, others you're just spewing them out." Tré "I believe that the older I get, the funnier I think I am." Billie Joe "I don't think life should have deadlines." Billie Joe " Mike's a bit more psychotic-looking than the rest of us. But he doesn't have the worst temper." (Vox, Nov95) Billie Joe "My cat died about 4 months ago. His name was Zero. Me and my wife went out and this girl was watching Joey for us. We came back and she said 'You guys better sit down'. She was doing her laundry; she put her wet clothes in the dryer and when she came back the cat was in the dryer, stiff as a board." (Vox, Nov 95) Mike "My all time favourite TV show is Sesame Street. They asked us on, but we didn't want fans any younger than we already have!" Tré "The most expensive thing I ever bought was probably...oh, you know, Oakland or something." Tré "I don't think there's ever a new generation around the corner. There's just a load of people who are just into being young and stupid with bad taste." (1994) Billie Joe "I love England - for me, when I know that I'm in England, it's not going to see Big Ben, it's not going on a Beatles tour, it's watching those beers fly in the crowd as soon as the first chord gets struck." (Melody Maker, Dec 2000) Billie Joe "If you want to relate to this band, then that's great, and we never asked for anything more than that." Tré "We were first put together by our record company. We auditioned in the shopping mall and I was picked for my dancing abilities - I can do a head spin!" (Oct 2000) Billie Joe "I write everything on a xylophone!" (Oct 2000) Billie Joe "We might trash some stuff, but we'd never do it just to look cool." Billie Joe "One of the biggest misconceptions about acoustic guitar is that it's a wimpy instrument. Just because it doesn't produce distortion doesn't mean it's not tough. Just look at Dylan - the original angry young man - his weapon was the acoustic guitar." Billie Joe "I think the main thing for us is to make a record that we like, and we like this record [Warning] a lot. If you feel like getting into this record, the do it; if you don't, then don't, you know...it's as simple as that. "
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