Green Day: Bullet in a Bible (2005 Video)

Billie Joe Armstrong: Self

Quotes 

• Billie Joe Armstrong : I fully promote and love watching Tre be the greatest rock drummer in the world.

  Tre Cool : [in a separate room]  I concur.

• Billie Joe Armstrong : Every single line that you write, you hang on every single word and you hang on every single moment. And for 'Jesus of Suburbia' when people are singing it back to you, they're not just reflecting what you've... the things about the song that you're wrapped up in, but also what their lives are wrapped up in, too. It's too much of an emotional moment... it's, it's one of the most emotional moments in a song I've ever written. And that's the only way you can look at a song like that. It's like you can't sit here and look at it and say, 'Oh, this is a catchy number.' 'This is... oh, God, I'd love to dance to this song.' For a song like 'Jesus of Suburbia' there's too much emotion at stake to just simply say it like that. You don't even have to say you *love* that song. I don't even think that's a way to describe it. It's not about... it's, it's about, it's about all the emotional baggage that you, you come with and that you are, are just... you finally have an outlet for. That's what 'Jesus of Suburbia' is to me and when it's reflected back at you by 65,000 people, it's um... I don't konw, it's a feeling you can't even describe.

• Billie Joe Armstrong : [masturbating on stage]  Somebody fuck me!

• Billie Joe Armstrong : My name is George W. Bush,

  [audience boos] 

  Billie Joe Armstrong : Actually my name is Asshole.

• Billie Joe Armstrong : [Looking at photographs of the band]  Hmm... Dirty... That's hot... This is my favorite...!

• Billie Joe Armstrong : This song is dedicated to everybody who took the train to get here tonight, alright? This song's called 'Jesus of Suburbia.'

• Billie Joe Armstrong : And this next song is a big 'Fuck you!' to all the politicians. This song's called 'HOLIDAY' This song is not anti-American, it's anti-WAR!

• Billie Joe Armstrong : We've been a band now... we've been a band now for the last sixteen years and not only is this the best fucking tour we've ever had, but in the past two days we've played to over 130,000 people-thank you. That's the biggest we've ever had. But remember one thing: the second day is always better than the first.

• Billie Joe Armstrong : [humping the camera]  You like that Bitch? You like that?

• Billie Joe Armstrong : Music to me is the air that I breathe, it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive.

• Billie Joe Armstrong : Fuck the dog - The dog's dead. People are freaking out!

• Billie Joe Armstrong : To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.

• Billie Joe Armstrong : As soon as we wrote

  [the song] 

  Billie Joe Armstrong : 'American Idiot' we kind of looked at each other like, 'This is... this is better.' We set that bar and then we sort of looked at ourselves like, 'Okay, now we have a mountain to climb.'

• Billie Joe Armstrong : It's like a big gallery of someone else's nightmare.

• Bill Schneider : There's gonna be front tress fireworks that come off the top.

  Billie Joe Armstrong : Good job.

  Mike Dirnt : You did good.

  Billie Joe Armstrong : That's good. I like it.

  Tre Cool : Good explaining.

  Billie Joe Armstrong : That was good explaining, Bill Schneider. You're a good 'splainer.

• Billie Joe Armstrong : I fully love and promote watching Tre be the best drummer in rock.

  Tre Cool : [In another interview]  I concur.