1

2

+ Are we on the air?
+ I don't think the whole punk scene is being popular.
+ I don't now, I can't answer that one.
+ We can't really comment on songs we havenn't written yet, you know.
+ I hope that we write good songs in the future, I mean, unlike what we just did. I'm joking.
+ They looked at me and was like, 'Who's the jerk with the striped T-shirt that's on stage right now?'
+ No, come one give me a break!
+ Quit. Quit. Quit now. Stop playing. Quit.
+ Yeah, we've done a bunch and the bastard loves us.(Letterman)
+ Are you Canadian? Oh, okay, 'cause you're sure as hell acting like on right now.
+ No you're wrong.
+ We're trying to sound like Incubus, but you know, it's pretty tough.
Me and Tre sold newspaper subscriptions out in front of like grocery stores for a while. But you know every job is a good job, I mean it depends on what you're into but every jo- I mean I would never say like, you know, 'Aw man it sucks having a regular job' You know? 'The reason I'm in a band is because I don't have a jo-' I mean every job has significance in life, and all that, yea...okay, I'm gonna shut up.
+ We know you don't like the heroin anymore Art, okay, fine, that's fine, but just talk about something else for Christ's sake! (Art from Everclear)
+ Hey hey hey hows it goin'? Hey dude hows it goin'? This is Lars Ulrich. If you're gonna be out there on napster you know what man, I'm gonna kick your ass!
+ We're trying to branch out and you know we really want to make every song sound like 'Sanitarium' by Metallica.
+ I think if you kind of let go of your vulnerabilities and put them into your music, and just be honest, then I think that's more punk rock than anything that the Sex Pistols ever did.
+ We're not going to live like hermits or anything like that. We just go and do what we always do
+ If people come up, and they are friendly, and they acknowledge the music that you play or the band that you're in, then it's fine. I don't really care. You just bag it and walk out.
+ I had this idea to write this song where all the lyrics would all be bumper stickers. It's fun to play on words especially like "Minority" [which] plays with "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America." It's nice to twist things around and take them completely out of context, and find sort of a different meaning, because a lot of that stuff was written years ago. It's just fun to sort of toy with and mess with your mind.
+ It's a song about when you're in a long term relationship with somebody, you have to keep reinventing it, and it takes a lot of compromise, and the person that you married or the person that you're with a year or two down the line -- there are a lot of different sides to them that you have to come to recognize or be sensitive to that you never knew were there before. And likewise, 'cause I'm sure with [my wife] Adrienne, there are a lot of sides of me that she didn't quite expect.
+ One thing I've learned is to just not give up on life, not try and look too far ahead, but just enjoy the present, 'cause a lot of people don't really appreciate the present until it's past.
+ I don't really think of myself as a role model or anything like that. There is a certain amount of responsibility that you didn't really expect to take on before your band gets popular. The funny thing is that this song(Deadbeat Holiday) is about trying not to give up and trying to depend on yourself a little more when there are so many things in life that let you down. I kind of look at it like an icon in religion or a political figure, people who have to have something to believe in, and the last thing they really think about is having faith in themselves. They look toward other people, and it's just one of those things.
+ I think we've grown. I don't really know about maturity or anything like that.
+ Well, you just sort of have to be honest. We never tried to repeat Dookie again and make a record that sounds like that. Six years, if you think about it, a lot of those kids were 16 back then, and now they're 22. They were in the middle of high school; now they are in the middle of college or whatever, or maybe they've dropped out of college, or they dropped out of high school when they were 16, or never went to high school at all, like us. You just stick to your guns and keep playing, and not really think about it. I don't give a damn. So if you want to relate to this band, then that's great, and we never asked for anything more than that.
+ A lot of people think I masturbate five times a day because of the words to Longview.
+ I'm not going to say anything inspirational; Im just gonna fucking swear a lot.
+ I came out of the music scene where things are really liberated. I never worried about the way people are supposed to act, so maybe I am a little different. But I don't think I'm crazy. I do some crazy things, I admit that, and I'll probablly do some more crazy things in the future, but people shouldnt't read too much into that.
+ I've never had a very high standard of living. Any money I've seen hasn't changed the way I do things at all. The only benefit is that I recently got married, and I can treat my wife the way she deserves to be treated."
+ I'm just the same idiot from Rodeo, CA that I was before Dookie came out. So if you see me in the street, come by and say hi. I guarantee you I'll say Hi back.
+ I couldnt care les if people think I'm insignificant because I'm 22 years old. Thats great. We caused a generation gap. Great. Most of the bands around now, I've been playing music longer than they have, and I'm also way younger than they are.
+ We're not going to try and write "Basket Case" 12 times in a row for one record. So in that sense, I guess we probably are more of a grown-up band."