Tre Cool Quotes & Sayings

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you. — Tre Cool

Smoke 'em if you got 'em. — Tre Cool

I can't stop bleeding and I can't stop having sex with corpses. — Tre Cool

The album was very agressive. It kicks you right in the balls. — Tre Cool

I'm a drummer. I can count to four and repeat. — Tre Cool

I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg. — Tre Cool

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. — Tre Cool

Back in '93 and '94, when 'Dookie' was being made, my dad built this tour bus for us, out of a bookmobile. We toured in it for the first year. It was a really bad idea, by the way. — Tre Cool

We have a thin candy shell, I'm surprised you didn't know that. — Tre Cool

I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation. — Tre Cool

Don't jack off a cactus, you'll only hurt your hand and the cactus' feelings — Tre Cool

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it. — Tre Cool

You just can't pull out the gun and blow the TV away anymore 'cause the baby might be sleeping. — Tre Cool

We're charging what we're worth and we don't think we're worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam. — Tre Cool

Life is like breakfast: you just mix all ingredients 'cause in your stomach it will all come together. — Tre Cool

Music has never been at a better time then it is right now, we're really lucky to be a part of this wonderful thing called music. — Tre Cool

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. — Tre Cool

We're Green Day. We can do whatever we want. — Tre Cool

I told my dad 'Yeah, I'm going to be a drummer', and he said 'Well, if you can rub your stomach at the same time as you pat your head at the same time you're standing on one leg and kicking the other one out in a circle and say the pledge of allegiance'. And I did all that just like bam, you know? — Tre Cool

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

I object. I object to any killing at all. You know, it's terrible what happened and I think retaliation definitely makes sense and it's definitely one option. But, personally, I prefer peace. You know, maybe I'm just being ignorant and shortsighted, you know, it's true I'm not running the government, I'm not running the United States. I just don't think that killing people is a good way to remedy people dying. Martin Luther King Jr. said that you can murder a murderer but you can never murder murder itself. — Tre Cool

You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe ... that's the Green Day way! — Tre Cool

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years. We have become more close. I think having kids makes you want to keep the gang together. — Tre Cool

I get mad when people are against pot. — Tre Cool

I've never been beaten up! I'm a black belt in Run-Fu. — Tre Cool

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful. — Tre Cool

I didn't have a normal childhood by any means. — Tre Cool

I'm like a sack of potatoes, to be abused at will. — Tre Cool

It was time to raise the bar higher, or lower if you're doing limbo. — Tre Cool

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. — Tre Cool

I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents. — Tre Cool

Everyone is entitled to our opinion. — Tre Cool

I am no longer married, so ladies ... there you go. — Tre Cool

I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck. — Tre Cool

I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song. — Tre Cool