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И я ответил ему: «Нет, это — мода!».
Green Day: Keeping Their Edge‎ (2006), p. 23.
A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!'

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
Вариант: Панк никогда не умрёт для меня. Это моя жизнь. Я никогда не смогу просто отказаться от этого образа жизни. Это воплощение меня.

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
Вариант: Я отец. Это больше не только моя жизнь. Я не хочу, чтобы мой ребёнок находил бутылки в доме или видел своего отца вдрызг пьяным.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
Вариант: Панк всегда всё делает по-своему. Для меня это — окончательная свобода и смысл индивидуальности.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
Вариант: Совершение ошибок лучше, чем бездействие.

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice?

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

If Britney would paint her ass green, I'm sure you could spot green asses all over LA as soon as the word was out.
Вариант: Если бы Бритни нарисовала бы себе зелёную задницу, я уверен, что Вы смогли бы увидеть зелёные задницы на всём протяжении Лос-Анджелеса, как только об этом стало бы известно.

We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.
Вариант: Мы вложили в эту запись всё, что у нас было, как мы делаем с любой из наших записей.

I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
Вариант: Я думаю, что это — ваш собственный выбор, если вы превращаетесь из сердитого молодого человека в озлобленного, старого ублюдка.

I hate celebrities. I really hate them.

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all.
Вариант: То, что происходит в Америке, чрезвычайно. Молодёжный культ, они поклоняются молодёжи так, это почти параноидально. И Лос-Анджелес — Мекка всего этого.

If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.

I'm very monogamous.

I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?

I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.

Our passion is our strength.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted
Вариант: Музыка — это было моё образование. Не было дня без этого, я принимал это как должное.

В интервью о новом альбоме "Revolution Radio", 2016