#nimrod quotes

[greendayauthority]

“Around Insomniac, I was afraid to walk around onstage. If I was to walk over to this part of the audience, that means I’m being an asshole. I was that self-conscious. Then during Nimrod, my drinking took off. I was like, 'Fuck this, I’m really going for it.' I started raising my hands in the air, getting people to clap. I realized that’s what people wanted. They want to have a good time, and it’s OK to be a ringleader. All of that built up to American Idiot. It took me until I was 32 years old to actually speak for myself and do it with confidence.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong on his confidence onstage (Rolling Stone, 2016)

[greendayauthority]

"I think we pushed ourselves as hard as we possibly could. It was probably the most difficult record to make... the longest process we've ever undertaken, definitely. Each song has its own character and identity, so we wanted to be able to bring that out as much as possible.”

– Billie Joe Armstrong on Nimrod (The Ticket, November 1997)

[greendayauthority]

"I have this great sense of relief right now. I have so much fun listening to Nimrod. I think it's a great record. It's one of the best records that's been put out in the last ten years, that's my personal feeling. I've never really said stuff like that before, but I know it. I know it's great, and that's really the only thing that matters."

– Billie Joe Armstrong (The Ticket, November 1997)

[greendayauthority]

"I sacrificed every other aspect of my life for Nimrod. I put everything I had into it - we all did. We didn't think about anything else."

— Tre Cool (The Ticket, November 1997)

[greendayauthority]

"We just didn't hold back this time from the other styles of music that we like. We've always written different types of music - 'Longview' being jazzy - and we've made songs sound like 'Sesame Street' before... things like that. There have always been hints of what we can do. This time, if we could hear it in our heads, we recorded it."

– Billie Joe Armstrong on Nimrod (The Ticket, November 1997)

[greendayauthority]

"I was really excited when it came time to record [Nimrod]. I think we went into the studio wanting to prove something to ourselves, that we could branch out musically, but still maintain that 'Green Day' character."

– Billie Joe Armstrong (The Ticket, November 1997)