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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIt’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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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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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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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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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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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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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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Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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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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That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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