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Billie-Joe tends to have a controlling nature, but that nature threatened to tear the band apart! Tre and Mike eventually ran out of patience with BJ when he wasn't taking their opinions seriousley. Than he had a rather heated conversation with Mike and he accepted that he needed to change tact to keep Green Day going. Dirnt says, "Billie called me and said, 'Do you wanna do this any more?,' I said, 'Yes, but you got to let us in. We're not like, staff. You're the president but we're the cabinet and you've gotta consult us.'" BJ says, "It was stuff like Tre telling me WELCOME TO PARADISE was a shitty song, and me getting pissed when they made fun of me." I still like "Welcome To Paradise."