Green Day: 'Lady GaGa's a risk-taker'

Green Day have praised Lady GaGa, calling her an "original" and a "risk-taker".

The band commended GaGa while responding to her recent claim that she was once so obsessed with their 1994 album Dookie, she wanted to lick the record's artwork.

Contactmusic quotes frontman Billy Joe Armstrong as saying: "She's a good artist. She's a risk-taker. She's an original. It's pretty awesome."

Drummer Tre Cool added that he was more surprised by GaGa's admission, explaining: "Usually when you hear the pages [have] been stuck together it's from some other bodily fluid."