Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain’t right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I’m walking alone.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI 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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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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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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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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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.
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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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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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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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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
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