“[Good Charlotte, on hand to support Green Day and other friends (My Chemical Romance and the Game, according to singer Joel Madden), also rubbed elbows with the Ying Yang Twins and Alicia Keys.] She was very nice, ... Usually people come up and say they like our band, so it's a great place to make new friends. It's like going to summer camp.”
Benji Levi Madden
“[Good Charlotte, on hand to support Green Day and other friends ( My Chemical Romance and the Game, according to singer Joel Madden ), also rubbed elbows with the Ying Yang Twins and Alicia Keys .] She was very nice, ... Usually people come up and say they like our band, so it's a great place to make new friends. It's like going to summer camp.”
“If for one minute you think you're better than a sixteen year old girl in a Green Day t-shirt, you are sorely mistaken. Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.”
Gerard Way
“You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way!”
Tre Cool
“[Green Day avoided flying into Miami because the group was already in the city this week to play a show on its] American Idiot ... We sat and watched the whole thing as all hell broke loose.”
Billie Joe Armstrong
“I don't think either the Offspring or Green Day started their bands with the intention of becoming so enormously popular; that sort of fell in their laps-especially the Offspring. My attitude is if somebody blunders into the level of popularity, at least remember the human factor. These guys are still human beings and hopefully still have hearts and if you keep in touch with them rather than vilify them you may be able to encourage them to go in the right direction. What I'm hoping will eventually happen is that they will grasp the amount of power and financial clout that is now at their fingertips and use those as tools to help real people with real things the way punk politics was always designed to do before, but nobody had any money.”
Jello Biafra
“The whole point of making a record was just to be maximum Green Day, just to sort of create our own culture, our own lifestyle. And when that starts to leak over into the mainstream, for me it's really exciting, because you honestly feel like you're contributing something.”
