Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGTo 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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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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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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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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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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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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There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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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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I like to keep my girlish figure
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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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