Tré Cool

“Britney Spears makes it cool for hot girls to marry double-divorcé dads of two like me.”

“Now that we're off camera, do you want to talk about dick, too?”

“We have a completely mixed audience, all age groups, from teenagers to 60-year-olds. ”

“We definitely come from a working-class background. We represent people who work hard.”

“The feeling I get when I work with Billie and Mike is something that can’t be put into words. For example, when we write a new song and perform it, I feel a sense of joy that I’m part of it, and the three of us are united in spirit. Even when we’re jamming with other people, I’m always thinking, ‘Ugh, give me a break.'”

“I’d like to study jazz, or Latin, salsa, other kinds of music. Not by playing it myself, but by listening and broadening my musical knowledge.”

“I played jazz for a while before joining Green Day. In the jazz band, I was constantly told to ‘play quieter,’ but then I was being told to ‘play harder and six times louder!’ Also, in jazz, you’re told to ‘play more,’ but in rock, you’re told to ‘play one beat at a time,’ which is the complete opposite of how I play, so it took me a while to get used to it. But I kept playing and I made it.”

“Even when I was homeless and starving, I didn’t sell my drums. I had no home, but I had my drums. Those drums kept me going.”

“When we recorded at RAK Studios, I wore the same clothes for every single song – including the same socks. I’d walk to the studio, and I genuinely would dress smart and wear a suit, because it’s London. But then I’d hang my stuff up and get changed, and put on my lucky socks, my lucky pants, and the same shirt. I wore the same shit for all those sessions.”

“I used to go to clown school. As you can imagine, you learn all kinds of skills there. Unicycling, among other things. During a performance, I fell off the stage on one of those unicycles and landed hard on the saddle. Part of my testicle slipped into my body and was never seen again. Farewell, testicle! Hey, at least it's still there, and the one I still have is really pretty!”

“I was in Cuba after American Idiot. I took conga lessons for a while. You mix the conga and cymbal parts together... it was fucking hard! Just another weapon in the arsenal in case I ever need to pick up women who are impressed by it.”

“Playing songs for people sends energy to the crowd. And then they send it right back to you, and it's a blast.”

“I was hitchhiking and I had everything I owned with me: clothes, drums, everything. A van with a hole in it stopped. They’d just fired the old drummer. For me it was a godsend: in a flash I had a job and two great friends to make music with and travel the world. So to all those idiots who tell you not to hitchhike... you don’t know anything!”

“I’m not exactly sure how many kids I have, but yes, I do miss them officially, for the record. In case any of them are listening, I love you.”

“I think when I saw the American Idiot musical come to life onstage, on Broadway, to hear our album brought to life in a different way, that was probably one of my most moving musical moments.”

“I can be Mister Wright or Mister Cool. I’m either the man that your woman’s been looking for her whole life or the guy that you wish you were.”

“The Tube system is difficult and I’m not down with warm beer.”

“We’re currently building a clone army and we’re going to send them off to different continents to play Green Day shows for us. We haven’t quite gotten the Mike down yet. He has very complex DNA.”

“Billie never drove, ever. Maybe once, for about fifteen minutes or something. He wasn’t good at it. He was only good at whining and pissing in a Gatorade bottle in the back of the van.”

“I am trying to put on guyliner with my feet.”

“Our crowds can expect to get laid.”

“Mike burps the loudest.”

“I’ve got my education through punk rock. It may not be the biggest education in the world but I formed opinions and views on the world and society, feminism and racism through it. I think it changes individuals.”

“Mike’s a mad sleeper—the way he sleeps he’s totally poised to hit the first person to tap him on the shoulder in the morning. Billie has bad dental hygiene, but so do I. A bit of my tooth rotted out the other day in Amsterdam. I’ve brushed my teeth three times on this tour! Fuck it! Beer cleans your teeth good enough.”

“All of my songs are dirty.”

“I was an eleven-year-old rambunctious kid with ADHD. I thought cymbals were awesome.”

“We had this engineer, Tone, who was 19. I called these dominatrix ladies in to beat the shit out of him on tape so we could get the sound of it. It was quite entertaining. He thought he was badass so they gave it to him a little heavy.”

“When we put out Kerplunk on Lookout Records, it was like ‘my drumming’s going to be on a CD!'”

“Admitting that we cared for each other was the big thing. We didn’t hold anything back. Before, Billie would write a song, get stoned and then say ‘fuck it.’ An imaginary Mike and Tré in his head would say, 'that song sucks, don’t waste your time on it.’ He stopped doing that and became totally fearless around me and Mike.”

“We were out in the mountains. We used to jam with solar panels and a fuckin’ Peavey amp.”

“A lot of people were like - ‘you saved my life, you saved me from depression, you gave me hope.’ All these things - it sounds cheesy to sit there and say it, but it’s true.”

“You’ve written from your heart, you’ve written from your head, you’ve written from your testicles.”

“We honestly just fucking love playing music. I wake up every day and I think about the stage, I’m just dying to play drums. When we’re not playing music, we’re talking music. It’s what we live and breathe.”

“I discovered punk rock when I was 11. I jumped into an MDC pit and got beat up by skinheads and whoever else. But it’s how I was educated. I dropped out of school when I was 16, so I learned from driving to towns, booking shows, meeting people and figuring out maps. That’s how I was educated.”

“We were playing and Mike looked over at me, and I flicked this imaginary booger at him. He caught the imaginary booger in his mouth. Little shit like that is still cool.”

“They always give you shit when you try and read those fisting magazines on the plane.”

“How about that time we all got drunk and went down on each other back when we were at college? We were experimenting with lesbianism.”

“Another good pickup line is "hey, how long is your cock?"”

“We're Green Day. We can do whatever we want.”

“I've never been beaten up! I'm a black belt in Run-Fu.”

“I've matured, maybe, but not grown up.”

“I'm like a sack of potatoes, to be abused at will.”

“We rented out a movie theater to watch 'Team America'. But I started doing bong hits with New Found Glory and I had to leave halfway through.”

“Britney [Spears] makes it cool for hot girls to marry double-divorcé dads of two like me”

“I used to drink beer and smoke pot before I played. Now I drink tequila and smoke pot. So it's a little different”

“Our motto is more booze and less guilt”

“It's a little embarrassing, but I'm a high-ranking member in the Church of Lushotology”

“We might be a little out of our minds sometimes, but we're fucking smart.”

“We're a political band, but it's not what motivates us. Music motivates us.”

“You never expect to write someone's fucking prom song. You never even got invited to your prom”

“We pulled out the harmonica and started singing prison songs...tattooing each other.”

“The one thing about Billie is he will snap and rip your head off if you point anything out at all other than how beautiful he is and how nice he looks today.”

“The radio sounds good when we're on it!”

“I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump”

“I think the listener can expect multiple audio orgasms and they're gonna cum out of their earholes. I'm telling you, you won't need Viagra when 'Warning' hits the stands.”

“People think that we're just good-looking guys with big dicks that play hot rock & roll. But we have feelings too.”

“I was pleasantly surprised with emotions, goosebumps, erections, everything.”

“Roll, roll, roll the joint - twist it at the ends. Light it up and take a puff and pass it to a friend.”

“It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts.”

“I can count to four and repeat. I'm a drummer”

“No man can eat 50 eggs!”

“I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song”

“New Year's Eve...we don't remember. They said we had fun.”

“Everyone is entitled to our opinion”

“Condoms are for sailors.”

“The band is like a marriage. We get onstage and fuck each other!”

“Rock star outfits...commence!”

“It's not about the way you pick your nose, it's where you place the booger that counts.”

“I never jizz in my own socks!”

“The radio sounds good when we're on it!”

“Don't jack off a cactus, you'll only hurt your hand and the cactus' feelings”

“I wanna survive an avalanche”

“I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents”

“You can't fuck with us now. We did it. We pulled it off.”

“I can suck my own.”

“I want to wash your grandmother.”

“You think your life is tough? Try being a parent”