I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.
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Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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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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I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
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As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, “Yeah, sure, I’ll give it a shot!” It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, “Absolutely!”
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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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 darkness is coming now god dammit!
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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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I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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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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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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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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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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It’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.
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I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
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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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A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
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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’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
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