No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMy job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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To me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
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There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Our passion is our strength.
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I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
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I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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