What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThe thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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When all else fails…be a rockstar
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Our passion is our strength.
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The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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I don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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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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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
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If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t’. They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.
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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 know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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The musical is amazing. i mean,i don’t throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009
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I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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