Mike Dirnt
Mike Dirnt
Michael Ryan Pritchard, known professionally as Mike Dirnt, is an American musician best known for being the co-founder, bassist, backing and occasional lead vocalist of the American punk rock band Green Day. He has also played in several other bands, including The Frustrators. His stage name was originally a nickname from his friends at grade school, as he would constantly play "air bass" and make a "dirnt, dirnt, dirnt" noise while pretending to pluck the strings...
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth4 May 1972
CityBerkeley, CA
real thinking important
I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.
thinking next-week silence
Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.
party optimistic thinking
I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.
bands early friends-or-friendship influences listening punk rock
When I was a kid, my influences were just my early friends' punk rock bands and listening to the radio,
genre musical passion reflective statement
I think that statement is reflective of where he is in life, and an opinion. I don't think any musical genre will ever be dead, as long as someone has passion about what they're doing in it.
band best green
We were up to the challenge. We're probably the best Green Day-type band there is out there.
counselor difficult marriage men people questions serious
We had a lot of serious discussions about who we wanted to be as a band, where we wanted to be and who we wanted to be as individuals and where we wanted to be as men and as people, ... Those are difficult questions to ask. Most people need a counselor to do that. And this is a marriage really.
invested
It showed us he was emotionally invested in the record.
suggest time
It was pretty intense. I don't suggest it any time soon.
definitely gears shift
It's definitely going to shift gears a lot,
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At the end of the day, we speak for ourselves, but I think a lot of people on this planet and especially in the United States can relate to us, ... We live in the United States too and we watch the news and we have the same questions and the same fears and angers and everything else that everyone else has. The difference is, I guess, we have each other to talk about it with and kind of sort our opinions out on paper. And we also have a creative forum in which to voice our opinions and our frustrations and happiness and everything. Not everybody has that forum.
music regarded susan time video
For a long time we were regarded as the Susan Lucci of the Video Music Awards, ... because we could just never, we were nominated, like, 14 times or something before we ever got one.
feels hear theatrical total
It's this total epic, theatrical number, so to hear it on the radio, it feels like you're doing something that's groundbreaking.
chicken chinese happy
It's the end of the day, I've got my chinese chicken salad, Mike's a happy boy.