"Music to me, it's the air that I breathe." "It's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive." "So without it, I don't know what I would do." "I'd probably have a job or something like that, but..." "People ask me, "What would you do if you didn't have Green Day?"" "And I said, "I'd be in Green Day." "I don't really know anything else."" "When people say, "What do you think of people that only talk to you or like you because you're in Green Day?"" "And I say, "Well, I am Green Day."" "That is me." "That is my life." "Let's go, hey-ho, let's go!" "Hey-ho, let's go!" "Green Day!" "Green Day!" "Green Day!" "Green Day!" "Alright, England!" "I say hey-oh!" " Hey-oh!" " I say hey-oh!" " Come on!" " Hey-oh!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Alright!" "Are you guys ready to sing along?" "Well, I want you to sing so loud that every fucking redneck in America hears you tonight!" "Alright?" "Welcome to the Green Day World Tour 2005!" "I think to do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes to get there." "Anything that's- I think is successful is a series of mistakes." "With "American Idiot," I mean, it started off with having band practises in- we came back and we started getting back into band practise down in Billie's basement and stuff." "Literally after two or three weeks, we we're just like, "This sucks." "We know how to have band practise." "This is not how we want to approach making a record."" "I mean, even to the point where Billie called me at one point and was like, "Do you even wanna do this anymore?"" ""American Idiot" was sort of a whole new let's-take-on-the-planet sort of vibe." "You should do it at least once in your lifetime." "I think we were kinda scared when we were doing demos, but I think there was some point that you know, fuck it, if people fucking hang us, fuck it." "Day one of the record, the first thing we did, everything was about setting the goals of this record, you know?" ""American Idiot," after recording it, we knew we had accomplished something that was completely... above anything else we'd ever done." "As soon as we wrote "American Idiot,"" "we kinda looked at each other like "This is better."" "We set that bar, and then we sorta looked at ourselves like," ""Okay, now we have a mountain to climb."" "I write a lot of songs when I'm going on walks." "And I was kinda thinking like, "Who is the American idiot?" "What is this person?" "Who is that guy?" "What kind of character is gonna come out of that?" "Who is it?"" "And I just remember going on this walk, and then thinking, "I'm the son of ragin' love, Jesus of suburbia."" "Those two lines right there for me were, "Oh my God." "Here we go."" "It was opening up something that not only was completely a new thing, but there was something about it that dug up some past, like... demons that- that you- it seemed like you closed off a long time ago," "but you never reconciled with, and then those two lines came out, and it was- they excited me and scared the living piss out of me at the same time." "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 it's also whether their lives are wrapped up in it too." "It's too much of an emotional moment." "It's one of the most emotional moments in a song that I've ever written." "That's the only way you can look at a song like that." "You can't sit here and look at it and say, "This is a catchy number." "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 the way to describe it." "It's not about" "It's about all the emotional baggage that you come with and that you 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 know." "It's a feeling you can't even describe." "This song is dedicated to everybody who took the train to get here tonight, alright?" "This song's called "Jesus of Suburbia."" "Ladies and gentlemen, Tré Cool." "Get those fists in the air!" "Alright!" "Get those hands up!" "Get those fists in the air!" "One more time!" "Brothers and sisters, get those hands up in the air!" "England!" "Ladies and gentlemen," "Mike Dirnt!" "It's like a big gallery of someone else's nightmare, you know?" "You want your bible with a bullet in it." "That'll be me." " You have a bible with a bullet in it?" " Oh, yeah." "Bible with a bullet in it." "Bible with shrapnel in it." " Man, let's go." " Okay." "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!" "Brothers and sisters..." "Lights out!" "The representative of the United Kingdom now has the floor." "England!" "You know, it's- the way it feels on tour is like there's always certain smells and there's always the certain things you see every day, whether it's body odour to the smell of the trucks outside" "to seeing the crew and the guys every day." "It's a travelling circus in a lot of ways, and you see the same characters every single day." "Wait!" "They don't love you like I love you." "Wait!" "They don't love you like I" "We got to countdown about 30 minutes before we go on." "Usually have a little practise amp and one guitar and one of us will pick it up and we'll kind of sing through- we all sing some vocals, and get our vocals in line, and there's usually a lot of goofing around in that." "There's that struggle to stay healthy." "There's a struggle to party, to not party." "Oh, yeah!" "Right here." "Sorry, Mike." "Everything that you do during the day leads up to what your evening is going to be like or not be like, because it could be completely unpredictable." "You could be having the worst day ever." "Your girlfriend broke up with you, your dog got hit by a car, your life is in complete turmoil." "And then that night you have this great show." "There's that feeling of "Fuck everybody." "Who cares?" "I don't give a shit." "Fuck the dog." "Dog's dead, but all these people are freaking out."" "And then you walk offstage, and then all of a sudden you're worried about what's going on at home, and you're back to your life and trying to communicate with people at home." "Sometimes people use touring as a cure-all for their problems." "It's a great place to run away from all of your problems." " I love you." " Which bus is Billie's?" "It's a different reality altogether, but as soon as that reality's over with, or that fantasy life is over with, all of a sudden, you're at home again." "There it is." "Home is right there, and you're forced to deal with things." "And then you have a terrible show and everything sucks." "That day sucks." "You throw your guitar at somebody or your bass at somebody or your drumstick at somebody with bad intent." "Then there's those times where that is your family." "That is who you are." "That is your home." "That's my jam, yo." "We've been a band now- we've been a band now for the last 16 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." "This song's called "St. Jimmy."" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "England!" "Let's go!" "And don't you fucking wear it out!" "Yeah, I mean, we were just approached to play Milton Keynes." "They told us how many people it was gonna be in front of." "At that point, we had played arenas before, you know, we were nervous about filling a place like that." "We didn't know what people were gonna think of us." "With Milton Keynes, all this touring had been leading up to the eventual playing of stadiums for us." "These were like our first two huge stadium shows." "We're looking at 65,000 people two days in a row and sold out way in advance, so we know they're gonna be exciting." "Is playing 60,000 people, does it feel different than 15,000?" "I think a lot of bands have a problem with is playing in front of that many people and trying to create intimacy, and when you play in front of that many people, you don't try to create intimacy." "You try to create an event." "You try to create a spectacle or a splash." "It's about just having something that's massive." "This is the biggest gig pretty much in the history of punk rock." "We're aware of it, and we don't take it lightly whatsoever." "We're gonna play for 65,000 of our fans." "And then do it again the next day." "130,000 people in two days." " Is England important to you?" " I think when a band makes it- when an English band makes it in the United States, they feel like they've really made it, and when an American band makes it in England, they feel like they've really fucking made it." "To have such a historical monumental point in Green Day's career, being in England, it was an honour, really." "I get nervous before every show." "I've always said it." "People always go, "Oh, no, you don't."" "One of the worst things I hate hearing" "I actually just told my girlfriend to say that." "I'm like, "Don't say that 'cause I'm really nervous," and they always go," ""You always do great." I'm like..." "We're ready to go on now." "Thank you." "I'll be here all night." "You go into a song like "Longview,"" "and you look into the crowd and as many people know it, there's a lot of new faces that are kind of like, "What's this?"" "And that was the point where I knew that we had- we had gotten out of that shadow of "Dookie" entirely." "We're a whole 'nother place, you know, and I think at this point, Green Day is synonymous with good music." "Alright!" "Come on!" "Go!" "Alright!" "England!" "Go!" "Hardest-working band in rock ever." "So hot." "Mmm, dirty." "I really like that." "It's all good." "They're gonna be all backwards and stuff when I'm done with them." "Mmm." "Mmm." "Mmm." "This one's my favourite." "There's gonna be front truss fireworks that fire off from the top over the roof." " Good job!" " You did good." " That's good." "I like it!" " You did good." "Good explaining." "That was good explaining, Bill Schneider." "Yeah, coffee for six and a latte as well." "No, a latte- caffe latte as well." "Yes." " What's up, Ringo?" " Thank you very much." "Yeah, right." "Give me another cig." "Some more of that sweet wine, mate." "You like that, bitch?" "No man can eat 50 eggs." "Alright, England!" "Well say, "Hey oh!" Come on!" "Hey oh!" "Well, say "Hey, hey!"" "Hey, hey!" "I said hey oh!" "Hey oh!" "I said hey, hey!" "Hey, hey!" "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey..." "Now that's how you do it in England, baby!" "I said a-one, a-two, a-one, two, three, four." "Alright!" " I said ah!" " Ah." " I said oh!" " Oh!" " I said ooh!" " Ooh!" " I said whoo!" "I say whoo!" " Whoo!" "Whoo!" " I say whoo!" " Whoo!" " I say hey-oh!" " Hey-oh!" " I said ahh." " Ahh." " Ahh." " Ahh." "Ahh." " Ohh." " Ohh." " Oh." " Oh." " Ohh." " Ohh." "Ohh!" "Ohhh!" "Ohh!" "Oh!" "Ohh!" "Ohh!" "Oh!" "Oh!" "Somebody fuck me!" "Are you ready?" "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey." "One, two- one, two, three, four." "One, two- one, two, three, four." " One, two- one, two, three, four." " And stop!" "Now you sound like you're fucking ready!" "This is what I need." "This is what it's gonna take." "This is what it's gonna take." "I need every single person here at Milton Keynes to freak out." "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa." "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa." "But first, I need everyone here at Milton Keynes to scream, "One, two- one, two, three, four."" "You ready?" "One, two- one, two, three, four." "One, two- one, two, three, four." "One, two- one, two, three, four." "One, two- one, two, three, four." "Come on!" "Before a show, I don't even really like being talked to." "You gotta get your heart racing, and you gotta get in that frame of mind where you have to skew your own reality and you have to really embrace and concentrate on everything that is going to happen on the stage" "and be ready for the unpredictable at the same time." "You get pumped up, you get ready." "You can't be just sitting on a couch and goofing around or playing Playstation then go up and rock a zillion people." "You gotta be pumped somehow." "That includes- like I said," "I gotta break a sweat before I hit the stage because, you know, it's like jumping onto a moving train." "You just gotta be ready for it, you know?" "Otherwise, you can get run over." "Rock and roll outfits commence." "Form of a supergroup." "Next hour's going to be a long one." "But the two hours after that are gonna fly by, and they're gonna last forever." "I am so beautiful!" "You just get rid of everything that's going on in the outside world and you just focus on this gig." "But there's just all this stuff that's going through your head, but all you can do is channel it." "You just get rid of everything that's going on in the outside world." "Hey-oh, let's go!" "Green Day!" "Green Day!" "Green Day!" "Green Day!" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "It's a place of worship." "It's a place of rock!" " What kind of place is this?" " This is a holy place!" "Why are there no clouds in the sky?" "'Cause God wants to watch his favourite band again." "For the next two hours, this is where I'm gonna be." "I want to treat it like as if it's the last time I'm ever going to play." "Everybody!" "Alright, England!" "Are you ready?" "Olé, olé, olé." "Olé, olé." "Olé, olé, olé." "Olé, olé, olé." "Hey!" "How are you guys doing up there on the lawn?" "How're you good guys doing back there?" "How's all my friends down here on the floor?" "I say, hey-oh!" "Come on!" "Hey-oh!" "I say hey-hey!" "Hey-hey!" "Now, I would like to introduce to you a band called Green Day." "Over here on the guitar... originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Jason White!" "Standing to my left, on the trumpet... originally from London, England." "Ladies and gentlemen," "Mr Ronnie Blake." "And standing right next to him, on the piano, on the saxophone, on the trombone, and many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many pornographic websites on the internet..." "Come over here, Mr Freese." "Come over here, Mr Freese." "Give me some of that- give me some of that UK Blues." "Come up here." "Bring me some of that." "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Jason Freese!" "Alright." "On the bass... a man I've been standing next to for the last 16 years." "A man who looks really good naked." "And the best fucking bass player in the history of punk rock music." "Ladies and gentlemen," "Mr Mike Dirnt!" "Mike Dirnt, Mike Dirnt." "And on the drums... a man that's very personal and close and a lifelong friendship with Mr Michael Jackson." "A man I like to shower naked with." "And the greatest drummer in the history of rock and roll." "Ladies and gentlemen," "Tré Cool!" "And my name is George W. Bush!" "Actually, my name is Asshole." "I fully promote and love watching Tré be the greatest rock drummer" " in the world." " I concur." "Tré is... he's pure drummer and way too much energy." "Orange Mocha Frappuccino." "Tré Cool plays the drums in Green Day and he snorts doughnut sprinkles and- oh, that's- ah, that's a sweet drain." "I don't want you to get the wrong idea." "I mean, not all liberals smoke lettuce." "You know and he's... how can l- how can I place it?" "I know, he's- he's just a little catalyst, you know, for good, bad and everything in-between." "Hey, dear, come here." "I can count to four and repeat." "I'm a drummer." "Yeah... yeah." "See, I made you think about hot tubs and stuff." "Gonna be an ongoing thing, it'll be funny." "I judge all you drummers." "I'm watching you, hey!" "Come on!" "We didn't even know that we were going to make a video, let alone a concert movie in front of 65,000 people." "Best laid plans go right out of the window when there's a rock concert and there's 65,000 people." "If you can't talk back to the control booth" "Slow- this is nice." "Something doesn't feel the way that we set it up." "I need something to go to Tré - where is Tré?" "Yeah..." "Um, j-jiggle the wire." "It's not working." "No, no, no." "Steph on wide and Al all the way." "Where is that" " George, find something else." " We don't have the helicopter." "You might get a few simple directions throughout the show." "You're doing some racks like that." "That was nice." "Good, that's great, hold that." "Tell everyone he's on the squirt gun right now." " Now, guys" " So get off that fucking side." " Off the side." " That's beautiful." "Look at that." "Man, that's fucking great." "Making sure they're getting the slates." "That's awesome." "I've called them twice." "I'll call." "Guys, make sure you get your slates." "Don't forget your slates." "Thanks." "Yeah, stay on Jason." "No, hold it, you dumb fuck." "Okay, give me a fast move." "Jim, come off of black." "Hold that." "This fucking camera" " Mario, hold that." " Awesome." "Right, hold that, hold that." "Right there, good." "That, hold that." "Oh yeah, good, good, good!" "Awesome!" "Fuck!" "Beautiful, Mario, keep that." " Fuck, man." " George" " George, is good." "Reload it." " How was it?" " It was good." "It wasn't great?" "King for a day!" "England!" "England!" "Get those hands up in the air!" "Go!" "Hey, you!" " Said hey, hey, hey, hey." " Hey, hey, hey, hey." "Said hey, hey, hey, hey." "Hey, hey, hey, hey." " Said hey, hey, hey, hey." " Hey, hey, hey, hey." "Said hey, hey, hey, hey." "Hey, hey, hey, hey." "Said, hey-oh!" "Come on!" "Hey-oh." "Alright." "Said hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!" "And stop!" "Now wai-ai-ai ait a minute." "Yeah-yeah!" "Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah- yeah-eah-eah!" "I have never put so much emotion into any... record than I have into-into "American Idiot"" "and in every song that's on "American Idiot."" "There are times where I feel like I get choked up and feel like I get a frog in my throat, or I feel like it's hard to sing the next line because even though it's- the record isn't necessarily about me" "but everything comes from some emotional place that I- that I've experienced in my life." "And it resurfaces every time that you play those songs." "You're not just putting it out there." "You're performing it, but you're living it at the same time." "Then when you see all those people throwing it right back at you at the same time, you know, it's just such an emotional level where it's- you know, it's- the whole show is" "and everybody is almost levitating." "This song is called "Wake Me Up When September Ends."" "I'm a manager of a printing factory with over 100 employees, and they think it's absolutely brilliant." "They think it's absolutely hilarious that I'm here today and trying to get into that mosh pit right down in the front to see my band." "I wanna be right in there, right in the mosh pit." "I don't wanna be in a mosh pit, but I wanna be in the front." "Crowd's off to the front, right at the front." "Oh, about that bit there where everyone will be jumping up and down, I think." "Jumping around, jumping around and jumping forwards and jumping backwards and getting very sweaty." "Generally, right there." "This is gonna be the best gig of my life, definitely." "Best day of my life." "It's 'cause of them that we got together." "We met working together in a bank, and not many people in the bank liked punk music." "So we kinda saw each other and started talking about Green Day and then started becoming friends and then went to see them." " Yeah." " After September the 11th, there was a lot of- the radio over here took all of their kind of political songs off the playlist, and it seemed like mainstream rock bands were scared to say stuff honestly" "because they wanted to get on the playlist." "Green Day came out with "American Idiot" recently." "They've been all over the place and just proved that rock bands can be honest again, and people wanna hear it." "People want the voice." "With "American Idiot," they're really laying down the gauntlet and challenging people to think about life and what's happening." "It's not easy listening." "It's not songs about masturbation anymore." "Like they've grown up and they're talking about something important." "The fact that they don't give a damn about anything." "The way can just tell President Bush to fuck off." "It's just nice to see there are punk rock bands out there who still care about it, 'cause it's nice that... 60,000 people here today who care about Green Day, who care about "American Idiot,"" "all agree with it, to buy the record to come and see the band." "Both equally the same massive Green Day fans." " Definitely, we are one." " Been listening to them for years." "And Billie Joe started talking to me, and he said," ""Are you coming to the London show tomorrow night?"" "I said, "No, I'm sorry." "I haven't got a ticket."" "He said, "Matthew, don't worry." "I'll sort you a ticket out."" "The next day, lo and behold, he's put me a ticket on the door." "They've been with me all my life, and I love them to death, love them." "So it's obviously not just a phase like my parents thought at first." "I've been listening to Green Day for the past 10 years." "And Zoe's grown up with them, so that's how Zoe likes Green Day." " They got it all." " He's a beautiful man." "It's just an amazing day." "They're definitely gonna go down in history with the likes of the Ramones and the Clash and Bad Religion in the punk circle." "When someone mentions Green Day, everyone knows a Green Day song." "They're the biggest band in the world right now." "Green Day's all about being who you are, being a minority and not being afraid of anything else for... nothing." "You gotta be who you are." "And you shouldn't be scared about that." "Listening to Green Day just brought out something that I never knew I had before, and if anyone tells you otherwise, you just gotta give them the middle finger." "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!" "We're Green Day from Oakland, California." "But I just want to say that England is now the official home of Green Day from now on." "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!" "And remember one thing." "Regardless of who the powers that be are, the people that you elect, the people that I elect into office, remember, you have the fucking power." "We're the fucking leaders." "Don't let these bastards dictate your life by trying to tell you what to do, alright?" "Come on, I say hey-oh!" "Come on!" "Hey-oh!" "I say hey-oh!" "Come on!" "Hey-oh!" "Well, I said hey-oh!" "Hey-oh!" "Well, I say hey-oh!" "Come on!" "Hey-oh!" "I say hey oh!" "Come on!" "Hey oh!" "You guys fucking rule, man, thank you." "I said a-one, a-two, a-one, two, three, four." "Alright!" "Ladies and gentlemen, Mike Dirnt!" "Jason White!" "Jason Freese!" "Ronnie Blake!" "And Mr Tré Cool!" "England!" "Green Day!" "Green Day!" "Green Day!" "You need a break when, you know, you're... it's just when you're done, you know?" "How do you know when you're done having sex?" "It's like you're finished, you know?" "It's time." "The cycle is over." "And that's usually like a combination of where you start getting tired of being on the road and you want to embrace your home at the same time." "There's a feeling of the chaos and being out of control that you have to embrace." "Can I give a kiss?" "Please don't film me right now." "When you feel like your legs are gonna fall out from underneath you, you know that it's all going to the right place." "There's a greater good that's happening, and you're getting a chance to play your music in front of people, and thousands of people are reacting at the same time." "That's, you know, a great feeling." "We really had no idea what our career was going to be like or if we were going to have a career when we first started." "All we knew is that we wrote some songs that we really enjoyed and we loved." "And we knew somewhere that we would enjoy playing these songs when we're older, that they would make sense." "It was about having the biggest Green Day concert ever." "And that's really what it was." "To me, that's a perfect show." "This is the best tour that we've ever been on by far." "I loved being on the road every single time we've been on the road." "But this has been one of those special moments where... the things that you're doing onstage are transcending into another arena altogether." "You don't really- you have no control over something like that." "It's complete chaos." "All you can really do- you can't really- what's the expression?" "You can't control the wind, but you can set your sails." "And you just kinda keep going that direction, you know, and wherever it takes you and see where you end up."