How has Green Day changed your life?

[*Jade_Green_Day*]

they saved my life. end of.

THIS.

They've shown me that I can be who I want to and not give a damn what others think. I never was one to follow trends anyway, but having Green Day's music to listen to helped me through what people who are part of the mainstream groups to think as outsiders. I never got any trouble from them anyway, and I'm so glad I wasn't with them as they're all clones of each other and say and wear the same things.

I'd say we have a hell of a lot more fun than them anyway. We like donut sprinkles, after all!

[Smoothed Out]

Since Green Day I've become who I want to be, not what everyone else expects me to be like. I stand up for myself and I've found something within me that I never new I had. I'm a lot happier and more comfortable being me thanks to Green Day.

[Mrs. Nobody]

I think teenage years are shit for everyone. For me 12-13 years were deffo the worst. Couldn't pinpoint why, I just remember not being happy. And I'm convinced they helped me through it. They helped me 'grow up' a bit too. I didn't have any friends, maybe cause my mentality was too young, and hearing their songs, and their attitude, definitely pushed me in the right direction.

Man, I wonder who I'd be without GD, seriously. They got me into music, yknow. Music is now such an enormous part of my life, i mean. wow

[Mistress.Kate]

Green Day tends to do that. XD hahaha, turnin' fans into perverts since 1989!

So true that.

I remember being this pure little girl... :whistling:

Then i met Green Day and here i am.

Just kiddin. Yep, they've totally changed my life, their music mainly.

It's like, somehow... they're so full of energy and they transmit it back to you, too.

I don't know how to explain it, they're such a great band, such great guys and they give

their heart and soul to bring out the music, that turns out to be pretty inspiring to all of us.

They've made me love them. That's how they've changed my life.

[Bubbles.]

ever since i started 2 lisn to green day i hav cahanged heaps like my attitude towards everything and the way that i dress and stuff

Almost completely, they changed me as a person, and for the better. It's all really on my GDC page of how they changed me and influenced my life.

I love you; Green Day

So true that.

I remember being this pure little girl... :whistling:

Then i met Green Day and here i am.

Just kiddin. Yep, they've totally changed my life, their music mainly.

It's like, somehow... they're so full of energy and they transmit it back to you, too.

I don't know how to explain it, they're such a great band, such great guys and they give

their heart and soul to bring out the music, that turns out to be pretty inspiring to all of us.

They've made me love them. That's how they've changed my life.

I agree with you, so much

The love I have for Green Day... it's not possible to sum it up in words, or even actions.. it's undescribable, I have been a dedicated Green Day fan for years, I am now, and I always will be

I think teenage years are shit for everyone. For me 12-13 years were deffo the worst. Couldn't pinpoint why, I just remember not being happy. And I'm convinced they helped me through it. They helped me 'grow up' a bit too. I didn't have any friends, maybe cause my mentality was too young, and hearing their songs, and their attitude, definitely pushed me in the right direction.

Man, I wonder who I'd be without GD, seriously. They got me into music, yknow. Music is now such an enormous part of my life, i mean. wow

WOW.

Those words you typed, just described it exactly for me, like how they've got me through life, because I honestly don't know where I'd be without them either.

[Freeny]

So true that.

I remember being this pure little girl... :whistling:

Then i met Green Day and here i am.

:lol: hahaha

[lovelyrita]

They changed it a lot. And I'm so glad I started to listen to them. Cause of them I got into rock music and shoved Britney Spears and shitty pop music away. I mean I didn't even listen to any knid of music. I wasn't interested in music. And Green Day showed me how much listening to good music can shape personality. I'm so thankful for it to them.

Now I think I don't have any reason to be ashamed, cause music I listen is really good and show other people who I am.

[Tashidge]

They helped me grow up in a way. Going through puberty with probably three of the most perverted men in music - always a nice thing to do for a girl. They made me politically aware I suppose. I think if I carried on listening to the stuff I was then I would've just turned out like a complete bimbo who knew nothing about the important things like what our countries are doing to us. Though... masturbation is rather imporant also for the sexual decadence.

Since I started listening to them many, many [13] years ago, I understood myself in a way. It's kinda like they came into my head, took my future emotions and wrote songs about them. At least, that's the way I look at it. Their music helped me to cope with teenage depression, puberty, growing up and going through losing three of my family members within days of each other.

Where would I be without GD? My Sixx, I don't even want to contemplate the answer.

[HaushinkaSins]

as cliche as it sounds, they saved my life. i'm just gonna leave it at that. i owe them everything. <3

[x-xwatsernamex-x]

I never had any confidence to say what I thought, dress how I wanted to, or to do anything really before I discovered Green Day. But Green Day made me want to learn to play guitar. So I bought a guitar and started learning a pile of Green Day songs. Now Im lead guitarist and vocalist in a band (just like Billie Joe!!) and have performed in local music festivals and allsorts! Im a completely different person when Im on stage - Im happy. I have SO much to thank them for its unreal. They have literally saved me. ILY Green Day!

[davegrohllover]

I can't picture not having Green Day in my life. They can put a smile on my face even when i'm in the worst of moods. Or if my day is really bad. It funny to hear my daughter singing there songs and her crush on the band, LOL So i guess the same goes for her too.

[green_melly]

I can't picture not having Green Day in my life. They can put a smile on my face even when i'm in the worst of moods.

exactly my thoughts

thank you tré, billie joe and mike

[Freeny]

they're helping me show my real emotions. it's a struggle but i try.

[alaniluau]

Green Day got me interested in music. I'm now a guitar player and I listen to a lot of different stuff. And they have a song or album for whatever mood I may be in. When everything possible is going wrong, I can listen to them and feel like there is SOMEONE who understands, and that I'm not alone. Also, it's really inspirational how three kids who had nothing were able to conquer the world. I honestly don't know where I'd be without them. I'm definitely a fan for life.

[.:Whatsername:.]

I can't picture not having Green Day in my life. They can put a smile on my face even when i'm in the worst of moods.

This for me too. I wouldn't be who I am without them. It's so weird to think about, but Green Day is the one thing that has influenced me the most in my whole life, and I don't even know what I'd be like now if it wasn't for them. I'd be a completely different person. Green Day is what I'm known for around my school and town. People who know of me see me and they're like, she likes Green Day. They just know.

I wouldn't say they've changed my life because I was only like 11 when I discovered them, but they've put it on the path that it's in. They moved it in that direction and I'm so glad.

[ビリー・ジョー・アームストロング ^^]

They aren't change my life.My life change other band,but this is off topic XD

[alaniluau]

I listened to Warning while I took my math final last week. I got 102% on the test. Thanks Green Day, my good luck charm!

[*Megan*]

I started listening to them back in the Warning Era and they helped me through some tough times as a kid/teenager. As their music grew up (in a way, no more songs about masturbation and boredom) I did too. They have been with me for almost ten years now.

Something about their music just makes me happy. Any era, any album, just depends on my mood. Seeing them on TV or hearing them on the radio is like a little buzz for me still.

[Deathwish.]

I listened to them when I was little but I wasn't the big music person back than. Around let's say 2003 I actually started listening to music... I changed my style, etc. I also listen to them to help study for tests sometimes, haha. Plus without those guys... I wouldn't have met the two greatest people in the world. They can also put me in some good moods when I'm a bit sad.

[jm_xd]

green day is really changed my life constantly. if i didn't listen to them i would be a boring girl with no style. i would't be what i am right now. i'e got a plenty of new friends and experiences! thanks guys you've totally changed my life!

[Last American Girl]

Well it was getting into Green Day that made me love music in general, and in February I am starting a course in Live Sound and Event Production, which I wouldn't be doing if I wasn't madly in love with music.

They also made my wildest dreams come true by getting me on stage with them, and Mike gave me his guitar pick when he saw I was crying. Therefore giving me the best two nights of my life.

[The Disappearing Boy]

im not certain if its changed my life. it certainly introduced me to new ways of thinking and certainly got me playing guitar, though.

[Green Day Billie Joe 21]

Green Day changed me complete, it changed my way of being, I changed my music style. Plus Billie Joe Armstrong is my biggest influence in guitar and Green Day in music in general.

[GreenDaymaniac2000]

Green Day changed me complete, it changed my way of being, I changed my music style. Plus Billie Joe Armstrong is my biggest influence in guitar and Green Day in music in general.

same.... and i accept myself now instead of trying to be something i'm not.

[Brandon R.]

I used to be one of those people that cared way too much what others thought of me. I was the guy in school who always tried to fit in with everyone even if they were assholes. Afraid of rejection, scared of being ridiculed. I didn't express myself because I was afraid people wouldn't like who I really was. Hell, I didn't even know who I really was.

It's not that I was looking for a label. I hate labels. But over time I wanted people to be able to see me and know what I was all about. That wanting outweighed the need to feel popular and I started to change in high school.

Unfortunately, at the same time, things at home were falling apart big time. My mother, who was mentally abused by her mother, lacked the power to deal with her demons and started to become the very thing that she swore she never would be. I watched it happen. First came the alcohol, then the drugs, then the constant insanity. This insanity is the same type you see in the movies but just can't believe it's real. But it was.

I was too smart to deal with it after awhile, though. But with two brothers and a baby sister, I wasn't about to let them deal with her alone. She stopped working and so I dropped out of school to work. I was seventeen at the time. I didn't see a lot of other options because someone had to step up. I hadn't found my dad yet so it was all on me.

I tried my best to hold everything together. I kept the bills paid. I was working as a shift manager at Little Caesars. It felt like I went from childhood right to adulthood. Inside it was killing me. I knew I was better than that. I wanted something more out of my life and I wasn't getting it.

The shit hit the fan six or seven months after I dropped out. Mom lost it completely and kicked me out on the streets. As melodramatic as that sounds, I probably should have seen it coming. I grabbed what I could and headed for a friends house.

You're probably asking where Green Day comes into this. Up until this point I had never heard of the band. Ever. My neighborhood was really into hip-hop and stuff. Rock did not exist outside of Metallica.

My brother had heard of them, though. And of the things I grabbed from my room the day I got kicked out, his copy of American Idiot was one of them. I'm guessing he left it in there by mistake but I had it now.

I'm one of those guys that loves music. Those days I was mostly into Eminem. You can take a guess why. I felt like I could really relate to a lot of stuff he had out at the time (mostly The Eminem Show) and it helped me out a whole lot when I needed something to calm me down.

So here I am at my friends house and I'm going through my stuff and I find this American Idiot CD. I was like "dude, what the fuck is this??". My friend had never heard of it and quite frankly I'm sure he didn't care. He was probably too busy worrying about whether or not my mom would find out I was staying there and if she come around causing trouble. Wuss.

I knew it was rock and like I said I had never heard much in the way of rock music before. I was curious, though, and so the next day on the way to work, I popped it into my portable CD player (yes, they still exist), selected a random track (2, Jesus of Suburbia) and turned it on.

Three minutes in... "wow.."

Five minutes in... "holy shit"

Eight minutes in.. "....."

By the time the track was finished, I kid you not, I was in tears. I had never heard anything remotely this beautiful in my life and I just wanted more. I felt like I could relate with this and it even went beyond that, I think. It brought up so many emotions that I had kept inside. Like I said, I was the guy who kept everything in for fear of being ridiculed and hurt by people. Literally, this album, American Idiot, changed all of that.

A lot of people would probably say that the power of music is overstated. I don't agree. Not in my case, not in my life. Since that day, it's been all Green Day. That's not to say my life was automatically amazing and everything was okay because of American Idiot. But it helped me get through the toughest issues I was facing out on my own at such a young age. That's the power of music sometimes.

I learned not to give a fuck what everyone else thought about me. I was living a lie and I wasn't going to do it anymore. Over the next few years, as I got on my own two feet (social services eventually took my brothers and sister away from my mom), I changed in so many ways. I guess you could say Green Day changed my life by helping me come to grips with my true feelings and emotions at the most difficult time in my life. Otherwise I would have ignored them and very likely would have become an emotionally closed off despot. It's not easy to deal with emotions like that, ya know? But you can't run from them, you have to face them. That's how Green Day changed my life. They brought out a lot stuff in me that I didn't even know I had.

Sorry for writing the book. I just wanted to get that off my chest.

And my brother still wants his copy of American Idiot back. Too bad. :devil: