Mike Dirnt Quotations

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.

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

I think that statement is reflective of where he is in life, and an opinion. I don't think any musical genre will ever be dead, as long as someone has passion about what they're doing in it.

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

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.

When I was a kid, my influences were just my early friends' punk rock bands and listening to the radio,

At the end of the day, we speak for ourselves, but I think a lot of people on this planet and especially in the United States can relate to us, ... We live in the United States too and we watch the news and we have the same questions and the same fears and angers and everything else that everyone else has. The difference is, I guess, we have each other to talk about it with and kind of sort our opinions out on paper. And we also have a creative forum in which to voice our opinions and our frustrations and happiness and everything. Not everybody has that forum.

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

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

If my kid didn't rebel, she wouldn't be my kid.

It was pretty intense. I don't suggest it any time soon.

It's definitely going to shift gears a lot,

For a long time we were regarded as the Susan Lucci of the Video Music Awards, ... because we could just never, we were nominated, like, 14 times or something before we ever got one.

It started off as this little joke and ended very grandiose kind of like the theme from 'The Muppet Show,' kind of how that was humorous but it was supposed to be very grand at the same time, very operatic, ... When everyone came back, Billie heard it and he was like, 'Oh, my God. That sounds so fun. I want to do one.' So he did one. He connected it to mine. ... We just kept playing musical hot potato.

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

It's this total epic, theatrical number, so to hear it on the radio, it feels like you're doing something that's groundbreaking.

It showed us he was emotionally invested in the record.

At the end of the day, if you follow the music, it'll take you on a really, really great journey

Be yourself. Unless you have the option to be Batman, then always be Batman.

We work super hard to not have to work

If you start planning too far ahead, the next thing you know you forget you're living today

All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.

Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.

Happiness is a road traveled, not a destination.

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

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

I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

There isn't an audience in the world that Billie Joe can't command.

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

Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.

Sometimes you need coffee, and sometimes you need a Bloody Mary.

A turtle does come in it's own bowl

Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.

It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead

I always said that the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone

It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.

Grab life by the balls and squeeze.

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.

I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.