Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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I just plug in and let go.
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You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I’ve never done before, and I love making stuff.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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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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When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can’t wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you’re a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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Our passion is our strength.
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Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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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’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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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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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 sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He’s having a mid-life moment, and it’s a small moment, really.
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When all else fails…be a rockstar
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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