One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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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 record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.
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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 don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
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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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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.
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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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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