My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWe stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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It’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.
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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t’. They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.
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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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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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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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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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I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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