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I remember being a little kid and thinking "damn, I hope I'm friends with my best friend for as long as Mike and Billie are" Even though we only see each other once every couple years since going to Uni, this year is officially 15 years! If the trend continues, I'll beat them (They met at 10yrs old, we met at 7yrs old. So when they were 22 they knew each other for only 12 years). I remember wanting to start a band together so badly in middle school. The year I got into Green Day (she's the one who introduced me to them), I got a bass and she got an electric guitar. I wrote some stupid GD ripoff lyrics for our band called The Apathetic Donuts (because I was a stupid kid and didn't know how to spell doughnut correctly). Not going through with that is still one of my biggest regrets.

Yeah it could be he didn't feel like talking about his personal issues during some silly interview. He said once that when he was being asked about Uptight in an interview he just made something up because he didn't feel like talking about suicidal feelings, so he could easily have done the same with Basket Case. But it could also be that both things are true and the song was inspired by both of them, either explanation is possible.

Also he said in an interview that Basket Case is about a girl called Becka, it isn't about him even though it's written in first person (and that's why many people think he must be insane). I think this was discussed a ton of times before and the conclussion was he was making things up in one of the versions, most probably in the one about Basket Case being about this Becka girl. https://youtu.be/8ZJjC8jejPM?t=218

Yeah there's this quote in relation to Basket Case: "'Basket Case' was about anxiety attacks and feeling like you're ready to go crazy. At times I probably was. I've suffered from panic disorders my entire life. I thought I was just losing my mind. The only way I could know what the hell was going on was to write a song about it. It was only years later that I figured out I had a panic disorder. " And like you said there's several other times it's been mentioned. As far as I know he's never gone into more detail than that, I don't think he's talked at length about it or mentioned if he was diagnosed with or treated for a disorder or if he just realised he had one. I also wonder whether he's ever talked about it other than when being asked about Basket Case?