How has Green Day had an impact on your life?

[Queen Liz]

Oh, Green Day...

They helped me get through a lot of bad & good days, like I just listen to any of their songs and everything seems better. In fact, not just the songs; watching them during interviews or whatever make you laugh and smile, because they're just nice funny guys and they're all you need to have a great day. <3

Their "fuck everything" attitude also changed me a bit I guess. It's like, things are not going the way I planned it? Well, fuck it, I can deal with anything.

Loving them made me meet some awesome people, some of the best out there.

Also, they definitively changed my musical taste, without them there are so much songs I wouldn't even know/listen to.

[ksquish]

I've made a lot of great friends in the green day community.

I've been able to travel and see them multiple times and make a lot of amazing memories I will have for the rest of my life, including crazy car rides, exploring cool cities, eating wayyy too much fast food and running into the band a few times.

They're my go to band when I'm stressed out. I listen to them when I'm driving and tired so I don't fall asleep. hahaha.

But on the negative side, I have experience a lot of drama with a few entitled, rude Green Day fans. Horror stories, man. Like, harassment. Making fun of my disability. Yeah. But you just let it roll off you, or else it will ruin your time.

But a majority of you guys are great and make being part of this fandom worth it.

[**kookai**]

...not so much anymore

[Satan]

Green day has had a huge impact on my life.

I discovered them at a good time as well (but not soon enough). they helped me get over a lot of drama and other things i really didn't need in my life.

I probably sound like SUCH a loser when i write this. but in a way, their music is like a friend to me. it helps get through a lot, it can give me a confidence boost and i can relate to it

i don't think i'm a better person because of them, but i am a more confident and independent person because of them. they've also given me a new identity, one which i like much more than my last one :/

[B.Good]

Green Day is the reason i started getting into music. And I couldn't think of my life without music in it. I'd go crazy. All my first songs I learned to play on guitar were Green Day songs.

In a way, they've helped me become an individual and like the things I like and be proud of it. Its hard being a Green Day fan nowadays because most people will say either they sold out, their mainstream pop now or think that their first album was American Idiot. So, there is a lot of pressure if you actually like them as a band and as artists. I've slowly come to the realization that you know what? skrew them! I love Green Day and they are a huge part of my life and the source of consistent happiness. Green Day to me is all about being who you are and being proud of it and not giving a sh*t what other people think about it.

[St. Vicky]

Green day changed me a lot.

They help me to get trough my everyday life and trouble, they inspired me to play the guitar, made me go to GDC and meet you guys!!!

And now I'm better person because of them, I have more self-confidence and I don't care no more what the others think, because I'm who I'm and the others just have to deal with it. And I started to think about things more and realize who I actually am. They make me punk too.

So I'm fucking proud that a band like this exist and I can be their fan! GREEN DAY!!!!

P.S: A great topic!

[E!!i]

Green Day had a big impact on me cause they changed my whole life, my taste in music, my style, the way I think

Before I knew them I listened to every shit that was in the charts and I didn't care about lyrics. But now I only listen to good music: Punkrock, Ska, Alternative Rock, Rock'n'Roll & Metal and care a lot about Green Day's lyrics

And before I knew them I just wore the clothes everyone wore and now I wear freaky or rocky clothes.

And I also care more about the environment and they helped me to stay a vegetarian (I already was a vegetarian before I knew them).

[E!!i]

Green day changed me a lot.

They help me to get trough my everyday life and trouble, they inspired me to play the guitar, made me go to GDC and meet you guys!!!

And now I'm better person because of them, I have more self-confidence and I don't care no more what the others think, because I'm who I'm and the others just have to deal with it. And I started to think about things more and realize who I actually am. They make me punk too.

So I'm fucking proud that a band like this exist and I can be their fan! GREEN DAY!!!!

P.S: A great topic!

ah yes I forgot the best, they brought me to the coolest community in the internet, the GDC and yeah I also learned to play the guitar because of them

Green Day is the reason i started getting into music. And I couldn't think of my life without music in it. I'd go crazy. All my first songs I learned to play on guitar were Green Day songs.

In a way, they've helped me become an individual and like the things I like and be proud of it. Its hard being a Green Day fan nowadays because most people will say either they sold out, their mainstream pop now or think that their first album was American Idiot. So, there is a lot of pressure if you actually like them as a band and as artists. I've slowly come to the realization that you know what? skrew them! I love Green Day and they are a huge part of my life and the source of consistent happiness. Green Day to me is all about being who you are and being proud of it and not giving a sh*t what other people think about it.

so damn true, I just think "fuck you" if someone says something dumb about Green Day

[B.Good]

so damn true, I just think "fuck you" if someone says something dumb about Green Day

It's like, i respect the fact that you got your own opinions but don't think that's gonna make me love them any less

[Burnout98]

Green day changed me a lot.

They help me to get trough my everyday life and trouble, they inspired me to play the guitar, made me go to GDC and meet you guys!!!

And now I'm better person because of them, I have more self-confidence and I don't care no more what the others think, because I'm who I'm and the others just have to deal with it. And I started to think about things more and realize who I actually am. They make me punk too.

So I'm fucking proud that a band like this exist and I can be their fan! GREEN DAY!!!!

P.S: A great topic!

Thanks, i was just thinking of a random Green Day thread i could start up a few days ago and this instantly popped up. I was quite surprised that no one had created this thread yet. Or maybe my searching skills aren't up to scratch....

[Leisha-LUNA]

They became my life. The most important and influential...thing...(for want of a better word) in my life.

[thejudgesdaughter16]

Green Day have had such a huge impact on me that its extremely hard, no sorry, impossible to put into words. I love them as if I know them personally. Being a Green Day fan means so much, and many people don't understand. The only people that do are other true Green Day fans. We have an understanding that runs extremely deep. Green Day has been with me through the worst times of my life. Times when no one else was. Times when I questioned if my own exsitence was worthwhile. Guess what, it is, and Green Day showed me that. Without Green Day i would be 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times different. I would be a person that if I saw today, I probably wouldn't like. Well let me rephrase that. I would be just like every other teen girl out there. I would be unique yes, but I would be aesthetically (spell check!!) the same as everyone else. I dont know, maybe that didnt make sense. But you know what? I DONT GIVE A FUCK . that is one more thing Green Day has taught me. not to give a fuck what all the other assholes think. I am my own person, and I am living my life for me. I know that i won't please everyone in life, so why waste my time trying. I'm happy with the person i am today. and i am annoying and wierd and funny and a dork and a bitch and the best friend you'll ever have and MANY MANY other things all wrapped into one.

So yeah, Green Day means the universe to me, without them, i wouldn't be who i am today.

[persons]

i thought there already is a thread like this, but oh well. anyways, Green Day have inspired me to get involved in music and other stuff like that .

[MynerGD]

I would say that they helped me to overcome difficult moments in my life since i was little.I was sometimes sad and i don't know but when i listened to them,they made me happier,they gave me a light to improve myself,to try to be a better person each day,they calm me down when i am angry,sometimes it's like they give me some peace that no one could give me.I adore them!I'm who i am because of them,and i will be thankful for the rest of my life! Years may pass but i will never stop loving them!

[dawn71]

I 1st saw Green Day live in Aug. 1991 That night changed me forever. About 6 months before I 1st saw Green Day

live my baby boy was murdered and I was going through the motions of being alive but I was very much dead inside.

I had so much anger and sadness inside me that was killing me. I grew up in a house that very much frowned upon

showing any emotion and was brought up to suffer in silence. Seeing Green Day changed that for me. Their music taught

me to let it all out and that it was ok to tell people that didn't like it to fuck off. Green Day very much saved my life back

then. I honestly don't think I would have made it through that if not for Green Day's music back then.

Without Green Day's music I can honestly say I really don't think I would have pulled through both physically & mentally

from the injuries I had sustained during my 3rd deployment in Afghanistan when I was in the Army. I remember when I woke

up in Germany in the military hospital they asked me if there was anything they could get me to make it more comfortable

I said, "yes can get me Green Day music." I said,"get me a cd mp3 or something please" The nurse said to me after that

she was referring to something for the pain & I said "I know,I am I too." After saying that I got so much Green Day music &

other stuff from the staff during my stay. It became a running joke at the hospital. One day one of the staff at the hospital

said to me that it was the weirdest request they have ever received from a patient just waking from a such a terrible injury.

Then she asked me what is was that made me ask for that. I told her I really don't know I just knew I needed it. Green Day's

lyrics/music has always helped me no matter how I may be feeling. They have songs that make me laugh when I all I feel

like doing is crying. They have songs that help me vent my frustrations when I feel like I am going to loose it. They have

songs that give inner peace when I feel the weight of the world on my shoulders. Their music helped me hold it together

when everything was so out of control.

Now I'm in a wheelchair and I have no idea if I'll ever get out of it and walk again. My husband took off when he found

out that I may be in a wheelchair the rest of my life. I even had to send my youngest daughter to stay with her grandmother

because I was unable to meet her needs from this damn wheelchair. So basically I was all alone and I've lost most everything

in my life. I was deeply depressed and not holding very much value for my life. Then on Sun. night Oct. 3rd 2010 I met Billie

Joe Armstrong after playing St. Jimmy & audience left, they brought me on stage of The St. James Theater to meet and

talk to Billie Joe & let me pick 4 people to bring with me. Billie Joe gave me a hug,kiss,and he asked if he signed his name

on me would I get it tattooed. Of course I said yes & I did get it tattooed on my arm. It was so awesome talking with him.

The best part of the conversation was when we talked about their 1st concert I went to in 1991 and he said he remembered me

and the stuff that happened that night when I got kicked in the mouth by a crowd surfer and I my mouth bled bad and then my

boyfriend tried to kick the guys ass and it disrupted the concert and Billie had to tell them to be cool.I just can't get over the

fact that he remembered that from 19 years ago. Wow...what an awesome person he is .I was nervous at 1st but once I started

talking he was so easy to talk to. He really seemed interested in what I had to say.I can't really find the words to explain how

I was feeling, but when I woke up the next morning I felt lighter for some reason. I don't know why or if saying that even makes

sense but that is as close as I can get to explaining how it felt, and it was an awesome feeling. It was great to finally get the

chance to thank him for writing the music that has helped me so much and seen me through some very dark times and pulled

my through to the other side away from the pain. I could never thank him enough but it was great to get the opportunity to say

thank you to him in person.I have always wanted to do that & I finally got too. I got so much more than I even hoped for.What

a night! Best of my life!!! Honestly, "I Had The Time Of My Life" I can't express enough how much that evening met to me and

saved me once again. Now when I get sad and start feeling depressed I look at my arm and when I see Billie's name & I

immediately smile and I remember that night.

I feel as if I owe Green Day so much for all that they have done for me in my life and I don't think that I'll ever be able

to thank them enough. Green Day has not only helped me and even saved my life on several occasions through out my

life they have shaped me into the person I am today. I couldn't even imagine my life without Green Day's music. There

just aren't words for the tremendous impact that Green Day has had on me through out my life. I have a profound respect

for Green Day's music. Each emotion I have has it's own song that it can relate to. I can put on any Green Day albums & vibrantly

remember an episode of my life. My 1st boyfriend, 1st fight, 1st break up, the 1st time I got drunk, sex the 1st time, 1st love,

losing someone close to me, divorce,& through the entire spectrum of my life. Green Day's music has become the running

soundtrack of my life.....

Sorry for my wall of text...I guess I get carried away when talking about Green Day....

[Ryan_]

I became a fan of Green Day when American Idiot came out but only really started to listen to them in the summer of this year, but anyways.. they've changed my whole taste in music, my style, changed my view towards things or changed the way I think (or matured), has thought me not to care what others think of me, to be myself, inspired me to learn the guitar, and brought me to this website!.. without them, I'd be the old me who was trendy like most other people and listened to mainstream music .. i hate even talking about it, so I've alot to thank to Green Day

[V@L3]

i dont know how to describe it...but theyre the reason i wake up in the morning. after a bad day, or being sad, i listen to green day and it gets better (not even kidding). i cant believe i started listening to them in 2009, where have they been all my life? oh and bj's smile brings a smile to my face

I 1st saw Green Day live in Aug. 1991 That night changed me forever. About 6 months before I 1st saw Green Day

live my baby boy was murdered and I was going through the motions of being alive but I was very much dead inside.

I had so much anger and sadness inside me that was killing me. I grew up in a house that very much frowned upon

showing any emotion and was brought up to suffer in silence. Seeing Green Day changed that for me. Their music taught

me to let it all out and that it was ok to tell people that didn't like it to fuck off. Green Day very much saved my life back

then. I honestly don't think I would have made it through that if not for Green Day's music back then.

Without Green Day's music I can honestly say I really don't think I would have pulled through both physically & mentally

from the injuries I had sustained during my 3rd deployment in Afghanistan when I was in the Army. I remember when I woke

up in Germany in the military hospital they asked me if there was anything they could get me to make it more comfortable

I said, "yes can get me Green Day music." I said,"get me a cd mp3 or something please" The nurse said to me after that

she was referring to something for the pain & I said "I know,I am I too." After saying that I got so much Green Day music &

other stuff from the staff during my stay. It became a running joke at the hospital. One day one of the staff at the hospital

said to me that it was the weirdest request they have ever received from a patient just waking from a such a terrible injury.

Then she asked me what is was that made me ask for that. I told her I really don't know I just knew I needed it. Green Day's

lyrics/music has always helped me no matter how I may be feeling. They have songs that make me laugh when I all I feel

like doing is crying. They have songs that help me vent my frustrations when I feel like I am going to loose it. They have

songs that give inner peace when I feel the weight of the world on my shoulders. Their music helped me hold it together

when everything was so out of control.

Now I'm in a wheelchair and I have no idea if I'll ever get out of it and walk again. My husband took off when he found

out that I may be in a wheelchair the rest of my life. I even had to send my youngest daughter to stay with her grandmother

because I was unable to meet her needs from this damn wheelchair. So basically I was all alone and I've lost most everything

in my life. I was deeply depressed and not holding very much value for my life. Then on Sun. night Oct. 3rd 2010 I met Billie

Joe Armstrong after playing St. Jimmy & audience left, they brought me on stage of The St. James Theater to meet and

talk to Billie Joe & let me pick 4 people to bring with me. Billie Joe gave me a hug,kiss,and he asked if he signed his name

on me would I get it tattooed. Of course I said yes & I did get it tattooed on my arm. It was so awesome talking with him.

The best part of the conversation was when we talked about their 1st concert I went to in 1991 and he said he remembered me

and the stuff that happened that night when I got kicked in the mouth by a crowd surfer and I my mouth bled bad and then my

boyfriend tried to kick the guys ass and it disrupted the concert and Billie had to tell them to be cool.I just can't get over the

fact that he remembered that from 19 years ago. Wow...what an awesome person he is .I was nervous at 1st but once I started

talking he was so easy to talk to. He really seemed interested in what I had to say.I can't really find the words to explain how

I was feeling, but when I woke up the next morning I felt lighter for some reason. I don't know why or if saying that even makes

sense but that is as close as I can get to explaining how it felt, and it was an awesome feeling. It was great to finally get the

chance to thank him for writing the music that has helped me so much and seen me through some very dark times and pulled

my through to the other side away from the pain. I could never thank him enough but it was great to get the opportunity to say

thank you to him in person.I have always wanted to do that & I finally got too. I got so much more than I even hoped for.What

a night! Best of my life!!! Honestly, "I Had The Time Of My Life" I can't express enough how much that evening met to me and

saved me once again. Now when I get sad and start feeling depressed I look at my arm and when I see Billie's name & I

immediately smile and I remember that night.

I feel as if I owe Green Day so much for all that they have done for me in my life and I don't think that I'll ever be able

to thank them enough. Green Day has not only helped me and even saved my life on several occasions through out my

life they have shaped me into the person I am today. I couldn't even imagine my life without Green Day's music. There

just aren't words for the tremendous impact that Green Day has had on me through out my life. I have a profound respect

for Green Day's music. Each emotion I have has it's own song that it can relate to. I can put on any Green Day albums & vibrantly

remember an episode of my life. My 1st boyfriend, 1st fight, 1st break up, the 1st time I got drunk, sex the 1st time, 1st love,

losing someone close to me, divorce,& through the entire spectrum of my life. Green Day's music has become the running

soundtrack of my life.....

Sorry for my wall of text...I guess I get carried away when talking about Green Day....

wow....omg!!! how sweet

I became a fan of Green Day when American Idiot came out but only really started to listen to them in the summer of this year, but anyways.. they've changed my whole taste in music, my style, changed my view towards things or changed the way I think (or matured), has thought me not to care what others think of me, to be myself, inspired me to learn the guitar, and brought me to this website!.. without them, I'd be the old me who was trendy like most other people and listened to mainstream music .. i hate even talking about it, so I've alot to thank to Green Day

same here...i just knew the songs from 21st cbd until this summer, and you have no idea how i was before i really started getting into them

also, i found my inner self in green day. i was always listening to what was new on the radio and dressing and acting like everybody else, and getting carried away with materialism (i know, it makes me wanna puke when i think about it but i discovered green day in 2009). with green day, i discovered none of those things matter...and discovered the true meaning of music....i devote my whole new self to green day. all those messages have been portrayed to me by their music...and im currently learning to play the guitar, just so i can play their songs. billie joe is the best songwriter in HISTORY!!!!! thanks to green day, im a different person, and have lost friends because of that, but ive made new and real ones from which i can identify with! i owe it all to this kickass band

[A_Dog_In_Heat]

It's really impossible to describe their profound impact on my life, but I know I wouldn't be in a band, let alone a punk band. I also would be more self concious and more introverted, oh and I wouldn't have died my hair blue(like Billie's; Woodstock 94) if I never became a fan of Green Day.

[LouLou]

They've made me work really hard and spend a lot of money

Money well spent.

[Broken_Tune]

they taught me that being part of a minority is nothing to be ashamed of

im different from all the people i know and that use to make me feel very uncomfortable

[solongfromthestars]

I'm putting my big long ramble in a spoiler so nobody dies of boredom and can just skip my post.

Just a warning, it's a massive long boring life story if you decide to open it.

Basically, they saved my life. I was depressed and agoraphobic and I was a bad person. About 10 different people had made sexual advances on me including my own father and I didn't trust anybody. I'd been stuck in the house and missed 3 years of school because I was so ill, I was a teenager surrounded by demons. But yeah, that's kind of irrelevant; to sum it up I was either going to kill myself or die of a drug overdose. I'd been a big Green Day fan since I was a kid but everything had got so shitty I couldn't really appreciate them properly. Then 21st Century Breakdown came out. I don't know why but I could relate to those lyrics so much and the character of Gloria and her story really made an impression on me. I don't really know how to describe those few months. It was a really difficult time but I came out of it a completely different person because of Green Day. I was strong and I was positive and all my demons were long gone, and I've never looked back. Until I saw them live in Birmingham & Manchester in October 2009, I'd never had a proper holiday. The concerts changed me even more and the experience of being away from the house I'd been locked up in all that time to seeing Green Day was the best thing that had ever happened to me, and a memory that will stay with me forever. I started writing my book because they've given me back strength and inspiration and life, which will probably be my future. I went back to school and I've hopefully even passed all my exams with enough qualifications to go to college. I changed my name and left behind the past. I became a genuinely good person and I don't give a fuck what people think of me anymore.

Then following the GD 2010 European tour was such an adventure, and when Billie acknowledged me and remembered me for the first time in Hannover I felt for the first time like I wasn't unwanted and that somebody genuinely cared about me, even if it was only for 3 hours. It meant the world to me that he remembered me. Me and my mum also got so much closer following GD together, and now we're like best friends. Since we started selling all our stuff to get to the US and Costa Rica for GD and got into major financial difficulties, we can't be seperated. There's nobody I'd rather have as my touring buddy. By Costa Rica they all rememebered me and that meant more than the world to me. I love travelling and they've made it possible. If I'm ever upset or angry, I only have to listen to GD to make it better. They only need to look at me at those shows to heal every scar I've ever had, to make everything okay. I've gone from that shitty life to a life I actually want to live. I owe them my life. Green Day is my life.

So to sum it all up, because of Green Day I've found a home in all my scars and ammunition and I won't put away my burning light.

I can't believe I rambled so long! But I wanted to share how much Green Day have helped me because it's so amazing.